Strawberry squid

The Ocean 💙 on Instagram: "✨ Shine Bright like a diamond 💎 How epic is this strawberry squid! 🍓🦑 Have you ever seen one whilst diving? 🍓 The strawberry squid, gets its nickname from the berry-like appearance of its bright-red body speckled with numerous jewel like luminescent photophores 🤩💍 ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ 📸 by: @whoi.ocean | @PaulCaiger ⁣⁣⁣⁣ 🦑 Photophores have a wide range in structure from a simple group of photogenic cells to organs with photogenic cells surrounded by reflectors, lenses…

Learn about the Strawberry Squid’s strange features: like skin cells that glow red, and lopsided, mismatched eyes that help spot prey.

The Galápagos Islands are famed as a bizarre menagerie of blue-footed boobies, giant tortoises and seafaring iguanas. But the waters surrounding the archipelago are also brimming with biodiversity, including nearly 3,000 species ranging from pint-size penguins to colossal whale sharks.

Marine scientists filmed the strawberry squid 2,378 feet deep in Monterey Canyon, a submarine canyon in Monterey Bay, Moss Landing, California.

Strawberry Squid! by Challahandroses

From eyes the size of basketballs to appendages that blink and glow, deep-sea dwellers have developed some strange features to help them survive their cold, dark habitat. But with one normal eye and one giant, bulging, yellow eye, the “cockeyed” squid Histioteuthis heteropsis has perhaps the strangest visage of all. “You can’t look at one and not wonder what’s going on with them,” said Duke University biologist Kate Thomas.

Sometimes, evolution has a field day. Invertebrates don’t come much wilder than squids, yet most people have only ever heard of the “giant” variety. So strap on a scuba tank, and let’s take a look at eleven equally-amazing cephalopods you might not know a

(strawberry squid part 2, skin) squid is one of my fav sea creatures. Strawberry squid has differently sized eyes, one being small and blue and the other being large and yellowish....

While in the waters of the Romblon Pass in the Philippines, diver Joseph Elayani captured stunning footage of two blanket octopuses.

A large strawberry squid, one of three caught on the last trawl of the Deep-See cruise. Photo: Paul Caiger Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) "The strawberry squid, gets its nickname from the berry-like appearance of its bright-red body speckled with numerous jewel like luminescent photophores " via: @octonation