Check out this crazy video of a rare "elbowed" giant squid recorded from a Shell Oil remote operated vehicle in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Video footage of a rare "elbowed" squid taken remotely from a Shell Oil Company drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico went viral this weekend. The squid is of the genus Magnapinna, has tentacles over 20 feet long, and is one of only a handful of its kind to have ever been observed by humans. It has…
Can you name the genus of this deep-sea squid?
This is one of those WTF videos that came flying across my desktop today. I had never heard of the genus or seen the video 'til this morning, but even if you don't study squid, there's no forgetting this one. The video is attributed to Shell, from…
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Unlike people in the glamour states of Florida and California, folks here in Texas don't mind a little offshore oil development. We view the petroleum industry as two parts necessary evil and one part benevolent overlord. And, we feel this way for free. We don't get paid off like the lucky folks in…
Holy moly. That is no squid. That is the evil clown thing from "It" in it's new habitat.
Also interesting, this comment in the article:
"But the video is evidence of how, as oil- and gas-industry ROVs dive deeper and stay down longer, they are yielding valuable footage of deep-sea animals."
Evidence? Interesting word choice. I thought evidence was something to be gained from scientific inquiry. I would have said, "This video is an inevitable by-product of what happens when greedy companies destroy unexplored habitats because they are the only ones with enough money to go down there."
Seriously, should we like, thank the oil companies for their scientific contribution as they wreck the habitats for creatures like these so we can never see them again? Hopefully next time they will encounter squid with lasers instead, or in addition to, elbows.