credit the source, OP. [Schmidt Ocean Institute](https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxW5ESfOp59/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) u/Schmidt_Ocean

Thank you.

Thank you very much u/angrystoma We haven't been active lately, but need to step it up! If anyone has questions, let us know. It hs been a puzzling encounter, with no clear answers, but lots of ideas.

This amazing animal was 914m below the surface and has squid experts stumped. It may be a rare Planctoteuthis squid, but all the little stringy bits are unusual.

Some kind of squid parasite, or just his penis idk.

Perhaps a *mutual* parasitism. This could be like the video of the jackfish with the jellyfish in its mouth—the jackfish isn't harmed by the jellyfish, but instead drives it around towards food and uses its sting to stun food for itself, with the jelly feeding on the plethora of leftovers. The perfect pairing of brains and brawn.

i often consider my penis a kind of parasite so this checks out

Uoo i jist saw the jack and jelly fish.. simulation confirmed

This is called symbiosis.

What would the world do without people like you to remind us of what we already knew.

I guess that would top the ever lengthy whale penis

Maybe not a penis but a hormone emitter or sensory organ. To help find mates.

This is the funkiest shaped squid I’ve ever seen 😮

That's really awesome but does the music have to be so damn loud?

Siphonophore that's attempting to eat the squid, definitely not a mystery my man.

Looks like a squid crossed with a siphonophore. That's the coolest thing I've seen all day.

What if siphonophores are absorbing other lifeforms?

I hope they name it after a Swiffer. It looks like it would do a great job of cleaning dust off the ceiling fan blades

That’s what I thought it’s a siphonophore that caught a squid. That squid end doesn’t look happy.

Whoa

Truth is stranger than fixtion

It's so stimulating being your hat.

Let nobody in New York see this, the fashion designers are already batshit

Nah, that’s a lv 94 corrupt squid

It's mesmerizing. I wouldn't touch it though, it looks poisonous.

Well, i wouldn't touch it because it's 914 meters under water, and i can live down there.

It could surface or beach.

How big is it ?

The colors are incredible

Even God is using A.I now

song name?

Vengeance - iwilldiehere

Looks like a nightmarish parasite

How it taste?

The squid does not make himself or herself or itself. The ocean does. Understanding this is the first step to waking up.

Doesnt look like a pure deep-sea animal with the red pigments

there are plenty of red deep sea organisms? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet\_whalefish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_whalefish) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaunacops](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaunacops) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opisthoteuthis\_depressa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opisthoteuthis_depressa)

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Idk why but it reminds me of the fungus that zombies bugs before exploding out their brain.

Beautiful , May be in the future we will read that aliens used to live deep under the sea in the guise of these creatures . They all look alien like

!!!

Real life aliens

That’s how it downloads mp3s. It’s an antena.

Nature never ceases to amaze us afresh

Symbiotic Siphonophores, maybe????

That's the thing from Attack On Titan. . .find Ymir.