This is the first massive squid that was depicted in the depths of the sea – a child!
The massive squid was filmed for the first time in its natural home near the southern Sandwich Islands during a modern exploratory trip, and it turned out to be a child
The first living note confirmed to the huge pools (Mesonychoteuteis HamiltoniIt is its natural homeland by Subastian, the car it runs remotely on March 9, during a major trip by Nippon Foundation -Nekton Ocean Census in the remote Sandwich Islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean. The squid is a child with a length of about one foot.
Roof Sobastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute
A ghost fluttering faintly, at first it hardly appears between parts of the marine snow that falls in a slow movement, from the deep vacuum. The underwater robot pilot brought the creature to the center of the frame, giving scientists on a ship on the surface of the ocean a good look in the shape of a strange life. Her transparent dome, which is mostly full of fins, was topped, such as small wings, and its claws were placed under it, towards its glowing red integration.
There was a little bang – just a few minutes after quiet observation and almost time. But the meeting, 100 years in the process of making it, represents the first time a huge fight (Mesonychoteuteis HamiltoniThe film was arrested in its natural environment.
“This is one of the real planet giants, who live in one of the most virgin marine ecosystems,” says Cat Polstad, a co -professor at Oakland University of Technology in New Zealand, who independently helped in identifying the creature from the shots. “It is a source of magic and wonder, and it also plays a big role in the food networks in Antarctica.”
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Scientists on the research ship of the Schmidt Ocean Institute Valkin (also) I saw the massive squid about 2000 feet below the surface near the uninhabited southern Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. These Leviathans can grow about 23 feet and can weigh more than 1000 pounds – shorter, but more magic, than giant squid (Architeuthis Dux), Which grows to about 43 feet and 600 pounds. The massive squid that was captured in the movie was just a child, however, only measuring his length.
“We have photographed it because it was beautiful and unusual, and then we descend somewhat to the sea floor to do the exploration on which the rest of this diving focuses on.” It was not a few days yet, after the team heard from some glass squid experts, that the researchers fully realized the importance of observation.
Although people knew about the presence of a huge squash a century ago, animals were found mainly between the contents of the stomach of whales and sea birds, which succeeded in evading human eyes in their natural environment.
“Many of our scientific equipment and photography are noisy and bright, so the squid will be aware of our equipment long before we know that they are there – and they will remain far away,” says Polstad. “The deep sea is a large 3D space, and the search for specific animals there is difficult, especially when they are trying to avoid us!” Scientists still do not know much about what these challenging creatures feed on, or the period in which they live or their reproductive features.
“To get footage of events is very great,” said Aaron Evans, an independent glass squid expert at the press conference. Scientists know that the massive squid is born small, and some adult samples are preserved, but their time between these stages is not a good understanding. “So for us to see this type of medium range, between hatching and adults, it is really exciting because it gives us the opportunity to fill some pieces of lost puzzles to the history of this mysterious and very mysterious animal.”
The view came alongside many other strange meetings, including a Greennish fish with parasitic connection wires, PihatalikeMeat sponge that resembles a Dandelion and The coral reefs of Sousi. In one area very far and unaccounted, it is not surprising that strange and wonderful discoveries – and every new discovery offers an insight into a world that science still has begun to understand.
Polstad says: “Monitoring of the massive squid provides us with the opportunity to get to know this far place,” and sharing excitement in these discoveries with people who may not think about the depths of the seas often – although it constitutes 95 percent of the living space on the ground and play a huge role in organizing our climate. “
One day, we hope that the researchers will see the huge cultivated squid. “In the end, when we see adults, we will get very large shots,” Polstad said at the press conference. “They will have impressive hooks; they will be large and residence. There will be a lot of beast noise around them. But in this case, we can present the massive direct squid to the world because this beautiful animal, which highlights the splendor of many deep creatures in the sea.”