3,000 under the sea, laying on the ocean floor off the California coast, lives a googly-eyed little purple squid. Susan Paulson, a spokeswoman for Nautilus Live, said that the squid was captured on film by a team of scientific explorers aboard the E/V Nautilus, last week. For the vast majority of people, this is a species they’ve never seen before, even on video.
Some have compared the squid to “a cross between a Pokémon and a Pacman ghostâ€. In the video, various researchers can be heard making humorous comments about the little guy. “He has weird eyes,†one says. Another exclaims, “It looks like a child dropped his toy!â€.
While coming across sea creatures is nothing out-of-the-ordinary for the team aboard the Nautilus, this one is especially bizarre-looking.
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