First-Ever Footage Of Rare Antarctic Squid Captured In Wild — Scientists Stunned By Deep-Sea Sighting

First-Ever Footage Of Rare Antarctic Squid Captured In Wild — Scientists Stunned By Deep-Sea Sighting

National Geographic A ghost of the deep has finally surfaced. On Christmas Day 2024, nearly 7,000 feet below the Weddell Sea, a research team aboard the R/V Falkor (too) filmed a living specimen of Gonatus antarcticus, a squid species that has eluded scientists for decades. Until now, it was known only by the fragments it left behind—beaks in the bellies of predators, carcasses in deep-sea fishing nets. No one had ever seen one alive. That chang…