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Benthoctopus sp.
This was photographed on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. Human beings are persona non grata in that neighborhood anymore, I suspect.
Actually, is there anywhere in the ocean we'd be liked? Except as a snack?
(via Spiegel)
Histioteuthis heteropsis
Figure from The Deep(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Claire Nouvian.
By Ibrahim Lukman, a Syrian artist [via Spiegel]
A video of another installation.
Intense. Like a slap in the face.
From NG: Despite its delicate, decorated appearance, this jewel squid was found 1,650 lung-crushing feet (500 meters) beneath the surface of the North Atlantic. Scientists on a recent deep-sea expedition found the squid, called Histioteuthis, along with an abundance of other species thought to be…