"Rarely Seen Deep-Sea Creature Captured on Camera with Long, Sticky Tentacles"

A team of scientists captured rare footage of a "rarely seen" whip-lash squid, Mastigopsis hjorti, with long, sticky tentacles drifting more than 3,600 feet underwater in the Pacific Ocean. The Schmidt Ocean Institute is currently exploring underwater mountains in the southeast Pacific Ocean, using various equipment to study the underwater summits. The squid was observed excreting a cloud of greenish-yellow ink and creating abstract shapes to confuse predators. This discovery adds to recent sightings of other rare deep-sea creatures in different parts of the world.