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Patrick Pester

Haunting blood-red squid with large hooks drifts through Antarctic ocean's midnight zone in world-first video

A still from the first video of a living Antarctic gonate squid swimming deep in the ocean off Antarctica. .

An elusive species of deep-sea squid has been seen alive for the first time off Antarctica, National Geographic has announced.

Researchers filmed the Antarctic gonate squid (Gonatus antarcticus) drifting through the black waters of the ocean's midnight zone, 7,060 feet (2,152 meters) below the surface, on Dec. 25, 2024.

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