A century after its discovery, scientists capture first confirmed footage of a colossal squid in the deep
- Written by Kat Bolstad, Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Auckland University of Technology
The colossal squid was first described in 1925 based on specimens from the stomach of a commercially hunted sperm whale. A century later, an international voyage captured the first confirmed video of this species in its natural habitat – a 30-centimetre juvenile, at a depth of 600 metres near the South Sandwich Islands.
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