{"id":26016,"date":"2025-04-15T20:22:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26016"},"modified":"2025-04-15T20:25:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:25:39","slug":"the-first-ever-sighting-of-a-colossal-squid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26016","title":{"rendered":"The First Ever Sighting of a Colossal Squid"},"content":{"rendered":"

An expedition spotted a baby of the species in the South Sandwich Islands. This cephalopod can grow to more than 20 feet and has proved elusive in its deep-sea environs.<\/p>\n

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The first confirmed live observation of the colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, in its natural habitat, off the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.<\/span>Schmidt Ocean Institute<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In March, Kat Bolstad returned from an Antarctic expedition where she had used a new camera system specially built to search for the elusive colossal squid.<\/p>\n

No one had captured footage of one of these animals swimming in the deep sea. She didn\u2019t spot one on this voyage either.<\/p>\n

On the day she left the ship, though, Dr. Bolstad, a deep sea cephalopod biologist, learned about a recent video taken on March 9 from the South Sandwich Islands. fA dive team searching for new marine life, in a Schmidt Ocean Institute submersible, had happened upon a young cephalopod, and people wanted Dr. Bolstad\u2019s help identifying it.<\/p>\n

The juvenile was about 30 centimeters long (a little less than a foot), with a transparent body, delicate arms and brown spots. It was a colossal squid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cPretty much as soon as I saw the footage, I knew there was a good chance,\u201d Dr. Bolstad, a cephalopod biologist at the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, said. She consults remotely for Schmidt\u2019s Antarctic work.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been 100 years since the colossal squid was formally described in a scientific paper. In its adult form, the animal is larger than the giant squid, or any other invertebrate on Earth, and can grow to 6 or 7 meters long, or up to 23 feet.<\/p>\n

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An expedition spotted a baby of the species in the South Sandwich Islands. This cephalopod can grow to more than 20 feet and has proved elusive in its deep-sea environs.The first confirmed live observation of the colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, in its natural habitat, off the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.Schmidt Ocean InstituteIn March, Kat Bolstad returned from an Antarctic expedition where she had used a new camera system specially built to search for the elusive colossal squid.No one had captured footage of one of these animals swimming in the deep sea. She didn\u2019t spot one on this voyage either.On the day she left the ship, though, Dr. Bolstad, a deep sea cephalopod biologist, learned about a recent video taken on March 9 from the South Sandwich Islands. fA dive team searching for new marine life, in a Schmidt Ocean Institute submersible, had happened upon a young cephalopod, and people wanted Dr. Bolstad\u2019s help identifying it.The juvenile was about 30 centimeters long (a little less than a foot), with a transparent body, delicate arms and brown spots. It was a colossal squid.\u201cPretty much as soon as I saw the footage, I knew there was a good chance,\u201d Dr. Bolstad, a cephalopod biologist at the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, said. She consults remotely for Schmidt\u2019s Antarctic work.It\u2019s been 100 years since the colossal squid was formally described in a scientific paper. In its adult form, the animal is larger than the giant squid, or any other invertebrate on Earth, and can grow to 6 or 7 meters long, or up to 23 feet.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26018,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26019,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26016\/revisions\/26019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}