
First ever confirmed image of a colossal squid in the deep ocean
A colossal squid — the largest invertebrate on the planet — has been filmed alive in its wild habitat for the first time. For decades, the Kraken-like colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) was more myth than reality: scientists had only a vague sense of its appearance from fragments of its remains found in the stomachs of…