We are obsessed with the stars and the outer space, but there are still thousands of unknowns about our sea fund. A new discovery of a team of Australian scientists has demonstrated it again.
Alan Jamieson, professor and deep waters of the University of Western Australia, was able to capture an image of one of the most huge animals that have been able to witness.
It is a giant squid they have called as Bigfinin Spanish Large finwhich makes clear how strange and huge it is.
This unique cephalopod is already considered one of the most mysterious on the planet. Another show of this is where they filmed it: in Tonga’s pit, in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean, more than 3,300 meters under the surface.
The discovery of a giant squid in New Zealand
The squid was baptized as Bigfin and belongs to the family Magnapinna. Even so, it has unique characteristics such as its long tentacles that can extend up to eight meters, a length much higher than that of your body.
The most surprising thing is how difficult it is to cross an individual of this species. In the last 20 years, There are hardly twenty confirmed sightings of this strange creature. Now, we can see it in a video.
This is because the squid inhabits the so -called Hadal zone, one of the most inhospitable regions of the ocean, where the pressure exceeds thousands of times that exists at sea level and darkness is absolute.
Therefore, its anatomy is especially adapted to these very hard conditions.
The gigantic squid fins allow you to move effectively in the depthswhile its extraordinary tentacles serve as authentic living networks, to capture the scarce food particles available.
The discovery of a squid that walks on the seabed
In the video captured by scientist Alan Jamieson you can see how the giant squid seems to walk slowly on his very long arms in the seabed.
Experts have already worried about finding an explanation. Apparently, This surprising behavior is related to the active food searchsomething that had never been visually documented.
Scientists are quite clear the operation: tentacles are equipped with a sticky substance, and would work as natural traps to catch small dams.
Why is the finding of a new specimen so relevant?
This sighting has revolutionized the scientific community, since crossing with Bigfin It is very strange. That causes every new meeting to contribute crucial and unknown data on how it survives in such an extreme environment.
However, this recording is only the beginning. There are still many mysteries to solve the species, such as its reproductive cycleits exact diet or the way it interacts with other creatures of the depths.
In fact, the extraordinary length of its tentacles remains one of the great enigmas that intrigue researchers, although this new study has been able to shed some light.
