Video: Researchers film bizarre-looking 'cockatoo squid' near British Columbia coast

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Video: Researchers film bizarre-looking 'cockatoo squid' near British Columbia coast
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First posted: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 08:50 AM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 09:02 AM EDT
Researchers were tickled this week to discover a bizarre-looking “cockatoo squid” off the coast of British Columbia.
Exploration Vessel Nautilus identified the small, deep sea creature near the Juan de Fuca Canyon in the Salish Sea.
The translucent cockatoo squid derives its name from its bird-like appearance.
There are roughly 60 different species of cockatoo squid, which sometimes are referred to as glass squid or cranchiid.
"Its transparent body clearly reveals a cigar-shaped digestive gland, though color-changing chromatophores flash reddish hues to help the squid blend in. Carrying tentacles above its head, the squid generally looks straight ahead, but can also direct its eyes laterally, giving its cockatoo-like appearance an extra googly-eyed flair," a description reads on the Nautilus Live | Explore the ocean LIVE with Dr. Robert Ballard and the Corps of Exploration website.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgPSBwGNBdk
Translucent Cockatoo Squid Flutters By | Nautilus Live
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[Curious Cdn]

It's amazing what the metabolics of all of those drugs can do to the natural world when all that urine from Vancouver hits the ocean.

 

[bill barilko]

When are you going to learn to insert a youtube video FFS

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[spaminator]

When are you going to learn to insert a youtube video FFS

[youtube]sgPSBwGNBdk[/youtube]

I know how to post a youtube video. sometimes I forget to use the alternate coding.

 

[MHz]

Is that going to replace salmon on our dinner plates?? I so want to stick one of those suckers to somebodies forehead.