🦑 Squid with a built in fishing rod 🎣 ⁣⁣⁣ ➡️ Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)’s footage of deep-sea squid has revealed a crazy hunting process: Instead of trapping prey with suckered-tentacles like most squid, This species seems to lure prey by mimicking a smaller version of itself with a sucker-free tentacle that ‘swims’ around as bait. 🤯⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ When it’s finished & ready to move - it retracts and pulls the lure tentacle towards its body. ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ Did you know this species

Are you surprised that the largest squid on earth has never been seen at depth before? Also, while an adult giant squid is technically longer than a colossal because their two tentacles are extremely prolonged, an adult colossal squid is much larger in terms of mass and is regarded as being the largest squid currently alive. We are often asked how we know the colossal squid is still swimming somewhere in the ocean even though we can't find them, so keep an eye on our page for an upcoming video w