Alien-like Squid With "Elbows" Filmed at Drilling Site

This video was taken along time ago, I remember seeing this on ATS like last year some time... still a very odd creature though, some kind of a mantis like creature...

It looks like that jellyfish evolved into growing a head. I wonder how big it is...

[edit on 2/5/2010 by nightmarehalo]

the squids head kinda looks like the queen's head in the alien movies kinda weird but that thing would freak me out if i found it in my swimming pool one day!

The bigfin squids are a group of rarely seen cephalopods with a very distinctive morphology. They are placed in the genus Magnapinna and family Magnapinnidae. The family is known only from larval, paralarval, and juvenile specimens, but some authorities believe the adult creature has been seen: Several videos have been taken of animals nicknamed the "long-arm squid", which appear to have a similar morphology. Since none of the adult specimens have ever been captured or sampled, it remains uncertain if they are the same genus, or only distant relatives.

Originally posted by Romans 10:9
That thing was F'n creepy! Like a giant underwater spider or something.

A giant underwater spider is the scariest thing i have ever heard! I agree this thing is creepy looking and is one of many reasons why I dont go in the Ocean. I go ankle or waste deep and I am out...lol There is a lot of stuff in that water I dont want to come across and this is now on my list!

OP~ S&F! Very cool video. I have never seen this before. I do think it's a bit creepy esp with the elbows!

What a freaky looking creature! And the worst thing, it looks smart & unfriendly...Darn, if Aliens look anything like that, I so don't want to meet them anymore.
Nice find by the way OP.

The video is so surreal...

reminds me of the Cloverfield propaganda where they mentioned oil companies were drilling too deep and awakened a creature!

I've watched it 4 times. I've yet to see anything even remotely resembling "elbows".

reply to post by argentus


Wow, nice find. I hadn't seen this posted anywhere before. That thing is pretty creepy! Being filmed in 2007, I'm a bit surprised I haven't seen anything about this, being interested in the subject of rare animals. Thanks for sharing!


Cheers,
Strype

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Originally posted by argentus
reply to post by tooo many pills

 

thanks for that video! Much better quality. Lower on the creepy scale, but better for seeing the way it moves.

Now, looking at the video I posted, makes me think that Ha' la' tha' had it just right -- the squid is swimming along merrily, looking for a nosh, sees the lighted rover and freezes, not sure what to make of it.

If they're anything like the average cuttlefish, they are smart! If the cuttlefish has the equivalent intelligence of a small dog - if you've ever seen them in an aquarium, they are very self aware, aware of the observer and smart! - imagine what some of the largest forms of cephalopods are capable of.

Even the common octopus is quite intelligent.. They have been known to take the dead bodies of other octopuses away from near their den, as-well as learn from observation.

This beastie could be quite capable of seeing that ROV and thinking "That's just not right, what the hell?" -- and sadly every time I read about things like this, they say "We don't know enough about them because we've never captured one alive.." or similar, quite sad really..

We just bung these things on frying pans on hooks and think nothing of them, before we even understand them.

Originally posted by Blaine91555
reply to post by Ha`la`tha

 

Trying to fathom how a Squid might think. Lets see now, breed, swim or eat, the only three choices.

Squid: "Hmmm, wonder if I could eat that? Wonder if I could breed with that? Probably not, I think I'll swim somewhere else before it eats me.

No, you've confused the squid with the average human male..

Squids I would bet are far more intelligent.

Originally posted by nightmarehalo
It looks like that jellyfish evolved into growing a head. I wonder how big it is...

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Wow evolution right before your eyes.

When Cnidaria become Cephalopods in the blink of an eye

All I can say is WOW!! Just when you think you have seen it all.That is the most alien looking thing I have ever seen .Looks like its straight off the set of some alien film. Certainly would not want to bump into it up a dark alley



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Originally posted by Romans 10:9
That thing was F'n creepy! Like a giant underwater spider or something.

This reply actually gave me nightmares!! Yes it does look like a massive spider ......but one that can actually look at you!! Freaky indeed.

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Has always said the Oceans where aliens come from lol.. goodness knows what all is down there considering the bio waste thats dumped in most oceans of earth these days! good find OP

reply to post by Zenagain


What they mean is, two of the legs go out horizontally from its body (90º) and then bend down parallel to its body.

I only noticed it on the 2nd time!

Wow, very interesting. That beast definitely creeps me out but I can't stop watching it. I keep expecting it lunge at the camera and cause me to need fresh undies. Star and Flag for you sir.

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Originally posted by doomsauce
Wow, very interesting. That beast definitely creeps me out but I can't stop watching it. I keep expecting it lunge at the camera and cause me to need fresh undies.

Star and Flag for you sir.

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Question is HOW many more of them are there ?? Your right no matter how many times you watch the clip it still creeps you out, it IS totally alien. Just shows you when people report seeing creatures such as half man/half fish or half reptile/half insect that these weird things can actually exist!!

wow, thats a mind blowing image

i KNOW ive seen at least one film whos alien looks almost exactly like that, i just cant remember which one, what are the chances that something we portray in a film as alien, ends up showing up 2 miles under the sea


we got a lot to learn about this world

I think that thing looks totally freaked out about what it is seeing. Wish the video had pause capabilities.

Octopuses and their cephalopod cousins the cuttlefish and the squid are very smart.

Here is a really strange fact I had not known before.

discovermagazine.com...

Researchers and aquarium attendants tell tales of octopuses that have tormented and outwitted them. Some captive octopuses lie in ambush and spit in their keepers' faces. Others dismantle pumps and block drains, causing costly floods, or flex their arms in order to pop locked lids. Some have been caught sneaking from their tanks at night into other exhibits, gobbling up fish, then sneaking back to their tanks, damp trails along walls and floors giving them away.

This last part really blew me away.

Some have been caught sneaking from their tanks at night into other exhibits, gobbling up fish, then sneaking back to their tanks, damp trails along walls and floors giving them away.

Wow, so they can travel across land. I wonder if they ever climb aboard boats.

Apparently their life spans are less than 4 years. That is very little time.

Here is a tale of an octopus regularly climbing out of its tank, and another climbing back into a boat.

marine.alaskapacific.edu...

And a friend of his, a dungeness crab fisherman, once absentmindedly pulled an octopus from his crab pot and tossed it into his hold full of crabs. Later that night, the story goes, a loud thump wakened the skipper from his bunk. He went outside to see the hatch cover off and a slimy trail to the edge of the boat. He closed the hatch, only to be awakened again much later by another thump. By the time he rolled out of bed, he saw the hatch shoved aside, "and he caught a glance of the octopus going over edge of his boat again, but this time with two large crabs," Paust said.