A team of scientists records the massive squid for the first time
After a hundred years of getting to know the massive squid as a new type, Scientists have first recorded a vivid version of freedomPut a milestone in Explore marine depths.
During a scientific journey made in March, a team was found on board the Falkour ship at the Ocean Institute, Schmidt, the creature Near the southern sandwich islandsIn the ice depths of the Southern Atlantic Ocean.
The squid for young people, which is not only 30 cm (a small part of what it can occupy), It was recorded at a depth of 600 meters By a distance vehicle. It provided an unusual and unusual vision of one of the most mysterious species in the ocean. “It is interesting to see the first registration” on the site “to a huge young man … and insulting the belief that they have no idea about the existence of human beings.”
Little is known about the huge squid life cycle. The fishermen sometimes seized adults from Morbundo, but none of them were alive in deep depth. “100 years ago, we saw them mainly as residues in Stomach Marine birds, “Evacted Polstad.
Experts believe they can reach Seven meters length Weigh 500 kgWhich makes them the heaviest invertebrates and the largest ink on this planet. With their maturity, young people lose their transparent appearance and earn a reddish tone. This vision is more prominent For the fact that she is a model. According to a spokesman for the Schmidt Institute, the team began to discover a new naval life, not to find a massive squid.
The team finds two new types in three months
March’s journey was not the only time that the Biological Gold Research team found in 2025. In January, the team scored the first confirmed pictures of Ice glass ink in the southern oceanand Near AntarcticaAnother type that has not previously been in its natural environment.
According to Polstad and Aaron Evans, another independent expert who verified the photos, these Young people They share many similarities. Both have transparent bodies and sharp hooks at the end of their long claws. However, unlike the massive squid, the ice glass squash lacks hooks in the middle of its eight arms.
The new viewing took place in the Bilgeshevin SeaWhile scientists studied The sea floor was revealed by a huge icebergNearly the size of Chicago, which separated from the George VI platform. The resulting tremor It revealed a hidden ecosystem so farShedding light on how climate change affects the polar oceans and the lack of our knowledge of their depths. “The first vision of two different squids in consecutive missions is unusual and explains the lack of purchases of the wonderful population in the southern ocean,” said Gyuetica Fermanani, director of the Schmidt Institute.
35 days trip It was that he obtained the COLOSAL CAAMAR images was part of the cooperation between the institute, the Nippon Nekton Ocean Census and GOSOUTH, a joint venture for the University of Blameouth (UK), the GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ Center for Ocean Research (Germany) and the next British survey.
The remote control vehicle for the institute got the first confirmed pictures of at least four types of squid in the wild -including the massive squid and ice glass hips – And another even to verify. But his work did nothing but start. “These unforgettable moments continue to remind us that the ocean exceeds the puzzles that are still to solve,” Vermani concluded.
