This super rare squid is a deep-sea mystery. We recently spotted not 1, but 5, in the Great Australian Bight
- Written by Hugh MacIntosh, Research Associate, Marine Invertebrates, Museums Victoria
Osterhage et al., Author providedThe mysterious bigfin squid has been spotted in Australia’s waters for the first time. My colleagues and I from the CSIRO and Museums Victoria detail the encounters in our new research, published today in Public Library of Sciences ONE.
There have only been about a dozen bigfin squid sightings worldwide over...





