This article originally appeared on Huffington Post.
Shouldn’t creatures of the deep be … a bit deeper?
Russian sailors recently came across a massive squid, which they captured on video posted to YouTube. The bright red creature was apparently trying to eat a fish the men had snared, but the sailors pushed it off its prey before it jetted back down into the depths.
There was some debate over whether the animal in the video was a “giant squid” or a “colossal squid,” cephalopod relatives that are rarely seen alive. Michael Vecchione, an adjunct scientist at NOAA’s National Systematics Lab and giant squid expert, told The Huffington Post the creature seen in the video above is a colossal squid, not a giant squid.
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