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Colossal squid discovered by Essex scientists
A colossal squid has been filmed in its natural environment for the first time since the species was discovered 100 years ago.
The 30cm-long mollusc was recorded during an expedition led by a University of Essex academic, in a remote and largely unexplored part of the south Atlantic Ocean, at a depth of almost two-thousand feet.
Nonny Scott is a PhD student at the University of Essex and was part of the expedition...
Picture credit: ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute.
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