This unfavorable Antarctica Squid was seen for the first time

The deep marine environments of earth poles are the house for the mysterious ocean creatures: giant sea spiders, Antarctica sea pigs, Phantom jellyfish. It can be difficult to find and identify animals; Some are known only because researchers remain in fishing nets or sea dish. However, Christmas Day, the crew of R / V Falcor last year, the research vessel of the Schmidt Ocean Institute, never seized a creature.

This was part of a special dive National Geographical Rolex Initiative to document climate change in the Eternal Planet Expedition, Mountains, Rain Forests and Oceans.

The team had planned to place a remote-used vehicle, Subastian, Powell, but forced to investigate the outer edges of the region instead of the ice block movement group.

When the submarine fell 7,000 feet, the team was unexpectedly shaded by an Antarctic Giant Squid, a rare type of cephalopod, three feet long and a green cloud that released a large cloud.

“It was a beautiful squid,” he said. Said Andrew Thhurber, a deep sea researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara on the ship. “You always see the beauty of the deep ocean, and this was just a classic example of it.”

No Antarctica Gonate Squid had seen the team alive alive before the team is aware. They followed them a few minutes and made sure that the creature was marked by the color and marking the white spots.

“Videos like this are really excited,” he said. Linsey Sala, a museum scientist that manages Pelagic invertebrate collection at the Scripps Oceanography Institute and does not participate in the expedition. Discoverings of such species “can be informed about how life in great depths can be informed,” Sala said. Unknown samples sitting in collections of the world, it can help to discover what video footage is in this situation.

The previous glance of these squid species was limited to those detained by fishing vessels, and in other marine animals, mostly found in other seafoods in the Falkland Islands.

“It is always excited to see live images of a cracker known from the dead samples,” he said.

The discovery for those on the ship was “elegant elatio”. Dr. Thurber said. There was an alarm fire before Squid defined correctly. To check the types, Dr. Thurber and colleagues sent the images given to the world’s taxonomists by the submarine vehicle.

A cephalopod biologist Kat Bolstad recognized the animal at the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. Squid’s sexual and ages were difficult to identify, but the pictures taken through the images sent to him, the species of gonatus Antarcticus.

Hangs can be useful to have a characteristic that is shared with other squids, for predators and latching. Squid, at the same time, in the arms, perhaps, have scratches on the lap and sucking marks from the last attack of another marine creature.

It is difficult to come across and document in the deeply sea. It is difficult to research from thousands of feet from sea surface and expensive and animals tend to prevent remote-controlled vehicles that are often noisy and bright. These vehicles say “foreigners of the depth” Dr. Thurber said. “So it really comes and depends on looking at us.”

This was not the first inevitable remote to be shot by the Subastian, remote vehicles. This year, the underwater caught in a great remote visionMesonychoteuthis Hamiltoni, after a century, the animal was described in a first scientific document.

However, fewer, in depths living in the waters of the South Ocean and lower than 2,000 feet, the spawns are known to caviar.

Penguins in the area Antarctica Gonate Squid – Anyway, the youngest ones are known. They are also torn by a large calamar who shares the same depths and waters.

Discovery promises to shine on the life of Gonate Squids in Antarctica and also appoints more questions. How far do these cursed? How wide are their range? What are they fed in the skin? How much do they grow?

“We know that he knows so much about society can only be all kinds of interest,” said Dr. Robison.