Creepy long tentacled squid with "elbows"

[Cthogua]

"A mile and a half (two and a half kilometers) underwater, a remote control submersible's camera has captured an eerie surprise: an alien-like, long-armed, and—strangest of all—"elbowed" Magnapinna squid" (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/pf/98196571.html)

[stephen]

god thats the scariest shit ive ever seen... its just watching... watching and waiting....

[Alex Chow]

It looks like those virus things I see in biology textbooks. Scary stuff.

[chriskot]

Awesome! I heard about these, but I've never seen a video like that before. Now I want to see how they swim.


It looks like those virus things I see in biology textbooks. Scary stuff.

Bacteriophages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage).

[Psychotime]

Cool.

EDIT: Goodness, I didn't expect it's legs to be THAT long.

[Eric Lofgren]

Alien like? Who's sayin' that's not an alien :wtf:

Definitely look's kinda Wayne Barloweish to me :)

[Mael.strom]

It looks like those virus things I see in biology textbooks. Scary stuff.

Yeah no kidding, that's what I thought it was a Bateriophage too.

And jeez, look at those tentacles....

[Minja]

seriously, deep sea creatures = boner.

[birdsatemyface]

That's pretty insane. Reminds me of a Cloverfield mystery site I saw awhile ago where they stage an underwater alien discovery. (Not implying this is staged.)

[Max Challie]

That is the scariest, most awesome and hugely inspiring picture I've seen on the Internet in some time. Thank you!!

I'm just sitting here, thinking about it. Imagining going down there in a bathysphere to find it.

[edit] I just watched the video, HOLY CRAP! I didn't think the tenticles would be that long!

[Demo]

:wtf: wow im actully a little freaked out for real. i mean how many more tings like this are we gona find in the depths of our own oceans. are they gona rise up and kill us all
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just remamberd my avater is a deep sea fish and bathed in the irony

[Psychotime]

just remamberd my avater is a deep sea fish and bathed in the irony

Good thing you caught it first.

[HunterKiller_]

Deep sea creatures are made of win.

[Jacob Kobryn]

Why are you all so freaked out by this? I think it's AWESOMELY cool, but not freaky in any way.

[HunterKiller_]

Why are you all so freaked out by this? I think it's AWESOMELY cool, but not freaky in any way.

You wouldn't be freaked out if this swam up to you in the ocean?
It's like 10 times your length.

[Jacob Kobryn]

Well yeah, if I was just swimming, I'd be quite freaked out. But why be scared of a video that you're watching from the safety and comfort of your home that, if you read the article, is a scavenger/trapper. I'd be much more scared of some kind of shark than that... and I love sharks.

[nicolas]

:wtf: wow im actully a little freaked out for real. i mean how many more tings like this are we gona find in the depths of our own oceans. are they gona rise up and kill us all

naw, they won't.... pretty soon the oil companies will have destroyed the deep sea just to squeeze the last little bit of resource out of this planet. So dont worry, we'll have destroyed things we didnt even now about. Its better that way. :/

[Max Challie]

Jake, fear is subjective. Different people are scared by different things. I'm one who is afraid of the deep sea itself, that large mass of water which, if I was in the middle of, would be completely vunerable. Let alone all the otherworldly creatures. But I am just as frightened by it as I am fascinated.

I doubt deep sea creatures could survive up here. Just as the pressure down there would crush our soft bodies, the lack of pressure up here would likely cause their bodies to fall apart.

[Psypomp]

Bloop?

[tobbA]

Max Challie, that's the exact reason why noone has been able to catch a giant squid alive. :) Which is really a shame... I'd love to have a giant squid in an aquarium

[Justice Von Brandt]

Why do things in the ocean look so alien?

Cool vid

[HunterKiller_]

There are just as many alien things on land.
I guess the shroud of the deep sea just makes them more exotic.

[Blahm]

yea seening has how the ocean is like 95% unexplored there is probly some insane shit down there.

[chriskot]

Things in the deep ocean look more alien because their relation to people and everyday animals is much more distant. Not only did their evolutionary path break off a very long time ago, but they evolved and developed in a radically different sort of environment. One with almost no light, no air, deadly amounts of pressure, very little plant life, and hydrothermal vents everywhere. Most of the traits that familiar animals have are pretty worthless in a place like that.

[Max Challie]

We, as well as all lifeforms, are products of our environment. Creatures grow and adapt to live in their environment. Even with humans, people are different based largely on the environments and cultures they experience.

[Timmy the Turtle]

reminds me of the aliens from independence day! "release meeeeeeeeeeee" =)

[Malum Sonitus]

wow its beautiful. I have seen pictures of these types of squid but to see in a video like that is something. haha it looked like the camera man was panicking for a moment.

[Me,Myself & Me again]

Awesome!!! :)

[N D Hill]

One never needs an excuse to post sweet deep sea squid videos.

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[LORD M]

Now that's a sexy squid right there.

Here's another video of ot. Moving a bit more.

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[SirCalypso]

Weird! It doesn't really seem to move its "arms," I wonder what it has them for then.

[N D Hill]

Weird! It doesn't really seem to move its "arms," I wonder what it has them for then.

It probably feeds somewhat in the same manner a jelly fish does in the sense that it uses it's tentacles as a dragnet. Probably sifting anything that gets caught in them and then pulling it up to it's mouth.