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Article: SQUID-LIKE CREATURE DISCOVERED IN THE DARK OCEAN DEPTHS THE ANIMAL APPEARS TO BE COMMON IN DEEP WATERS AROUND THE WORLD.(FRONT)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- December 21, 2001
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Byline: Paul Recer AP science writer
WASHINGTON -- A bizarre creature with 20-foot-long spidery legs that lives in the cold, inky black three miles below the surface of the ocean has been discovered in photographs taken by deep sea submersibles.
"I call it a mystery squid," said Mike Vecchione, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researcher. "It's unlike any other squid I've ever seen."
Vecchione, first author of a study appearing today in the journal Science, said the only evidence of the squid came from photographs and video images taken during submersible dives. But the findings are persuasive, he said, because they came from ...