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The squids lose their transparent bodies as they get older, and dying adults have been recorded before by fishermen, but a colossal squid hadn’t before been seen alive at such a depth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
The Natural History Museum has suggested it is hard to estimate the global population of colossal squids.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2025
They encountered an immense flurry of different salps that were doing their nightly migration to the surface -- and many photobombing sharks, squids and crustaceans, Sutherland noted.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
It’s possible the creatures were giant squids, or pinnipeds, like seals or sea lions.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 28, 2023
He loved all of it: smoke rings and lonely squids and giant donuts and Flora Belle Buckman’s round head and all the wonderful thoughts inside of it.
From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo
