The Most Mysterious Squid (That We Know Of) | Lindsay Nikole

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The deep sea keeps its secrets well and nothing proves that better than the big fin squid. After 140 years, we’ve never captured a confirmed adult. Watch footage that looks like straight-up CGI: elbow-bent arms, ultra-thin filaments dangling in the dark, and a body plan unlike anything else we know. From the first mangled baby dredged up in 1883, to a juvenile spotted over 20,000 feet down in the Hadal zone a place we thought was squid-free Magnapina is rewriting what we thought we knew about the deep ocean. We have a few dozen sightings, zero full specimens, and somehow this thing might be one of the most common large animals in the world’s biggest ecosystem.

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Chapters
00:00 The Deep Sea’s Most Mysterious Creature
00:38 What Even Is a Squid? A Quick Recap
04:10 Found in Oceans Worldwide “But Nobody Knows Anything”
04:36 The First Specimen Ever Dredged (1883)
05:40 Decades of Misidentified Babies in Drawers
06:07 Officially Named “Magnapina” in 1998
07:34 First Ever Adult Footage “Gulf of Mexico (2001)”
08:12 Eight Videos, Multiple Oceans, Zero Answers
11:03 The Clearest Footage Yet “MBARI Hawaii (2001)”
13:01 2003 Serpent Project “First Close-Up Footage”
14:21 The Shell Clip That Shocked the World (2007)
15:16 Five Sightings at Once “Australia 2015”
17:17 NOAA’s “Windows to the Deep” Gulf of Mexico (2021)
18:00 Found in the Hadal Zone “Deepest Squid Ever (2022)”
19:13 Most Recent Sighting “Nautilus Expedition (2025)”
20:48 What We Know vs. What We Still Don’t

The Most Mysterious Squid (That We Know Of) | Lindsay Nikole
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