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Scientists at MBARI had previously observed deep-sea squid caring for their eggs, but the footage from 2015 shows a mother holding eggs that are twice the size of eggs from other deep-sea squid.

Rare footage shows a deep-sea squid wrapping its arms around a camera at a depth of about 1km (0.6 miles), where conditions are near pitch black. The Dana squid has all the tools of a top ocean ...

The giant squid is a rare and elusive creature, once thought only to exist in stories of sea monsters called krakens. But in 2004, the Museum was offered a nearly complete specimen caught at a depth ...

The deep-sea hooked squid is renowned for having two very large photophores on the end of two of its arms - described as “headlights” - which produce bright bioluminescent flashes to startle ...

The suckers are used to grab and drag prey. Giant squid’s reddish colour provides camouflage in the deep sea because the only available light is blue. Red pigment absorbs blue light so the squid ...

Some deep-sea squid shoot a cloud of bioluminescence to distract predators, much as upper-ocean squid squirt black ink. Jellyfish, often transparent in the oceans above, tend to be dark ...

Giant squids are one of the largest invertebrates known and live in the deep sea ... he spotted the large squid thrashing its tentacles around near the surface of the sea. He quickly phoned ...

How far would you go for a good meal? For some of the ocean's top predators, maintaining a decent diet requires some ...

Its flexible neck allows it to bend its head back and stick out the lower jaw to reach out and grab fish, squid and crustaceans. This is the only fish that produces red bioluminescence Many deep-sea ...

For the Creepers’ wriggling insides, the team looked at underwater sea creatures, squid and even the deep sea variants. Incorporating real creatures’ qualities contributed to making the made ...