Documentation of Rare Alien-Like Magnapinna Squid With “Elbows”

by Scott Beale on November 25, 2008 · 10 comments

A Shell Oil Company ROV (remotely operated vehicle) shot photos of a rare alien-like Magnapinna squid with “elbows” at the Perdido ultra deep oil drilling site in the Gulf of Mexico. National Geographic has the full story, including photos and video.

Thanks to Kevin Mathieu, RICK! and Jozef Zábojník for the tip!

image via Shell Oil Company

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1 jdfalk November 25, 2008 at 9:09 am

that squid is totally laughing at us

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2 Rhiann0n November 25, 2008 at 9:38 am

The super jerky camera angles are awesomely freaky.

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3 kc! November 25, 2008 at 10:21 am

This is CRAZY! I find it oddly fitting that almost all of our extra-terrestrial images can be found as creatures that live in the deep sea.

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4 KevinEvans November 25, 2008 at 12:29 pm

cthulhu fhtagn!

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5 rockbandit November 25, 2008 at 11:14 pm

Damn. Imagine sitting in front of some monitors in a dark room as you guide the ROV and suddenly coming across this. It's like playing Half Life or something, only in real life. My heart would probably stop.

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6 rockbandit November 25, 2008 at 11:19 pm

Oh, and video on the National Geographic site is choking.

Here is the YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPRPnQ-dUSo

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7 wowow December 2, 2008 at 6:44 pm

DUDE that squid looks like the alein queen off independence day if i saw that i would probly faint

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8 Gary December 3, 2008 at 7:32 pm

this is taken by one of my co-workers. The ROV is owned and operated by Oceaneering

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9 wowow December 7, 2008 at 6:06 pm

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!! that look freaky it looks like a spider or a alien bug with jimmy newtron sized head LOL

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10 tinker97027 June 28, 2009 at 4:58 pm

WHOA!!!!! That thing is SO creepy! Yeah, I’d have to agree with all of you on the fact that I would have a flippin heart attack seein somethin like that. But yet how cool that someone caught this rare species on tape & then shared it with the world!!!!

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