Nov 28 2008Mysterious 'Elbowed' Squid Caught On Video

An underwater rover operated by Shell oil company caught some video of a rare Magnapinna (attractive metal penis) squid a mile and half down. And the squishy bastard has elbowed tentacles! WTF! And also, nigiri. Mmmm.
Two more pictures (one old) after the jump, horrible one second video here.


Alien-like Squid Seen at Deep Drilling Site [nationalgeographic]
Thanks to KXHone, who once ate 35,000 blue whale sushi rolls in one sitting.
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Reader Comments
1. _c_money_ - November 28, 2008 5:40 PM
i'd hit it
2. David Vasquez - November 28, 2008 5:41 PM
I believe these have been photographed before?
3. El Guapo - November 28, 2008 5:42 PM
Your face has been photographed before
4. Bobo - November 28, 2008 5:45 PM
thats amazing ! we live in a time that anything is possible =D thanks to high techologies
who knows what we might discovered next =D Alien ship under water or lochness monster.
FIRST for the first time !!
5. Bobo - November 28, 2008 5:45 PM
wow that was fast... i thought i was the first one to comment but 4th place...
6. martina - November 28, 2008 5:46 PM
that is amazing!
7. Daisy - November 28, 2008 5:48 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is an obvious photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadows are all wrong.
This looks a lot like the scene in the movie Never Back down where they were on a space mining vessel that was investigating a distress call, and an alien attached itself to Max's face. Later when he was eating dinner the creature burst out of his chest and scurried away, killing Max and scaring the shit out of Baja and the rest of the crew.
8. Klint - November 28, 2008 5:51 PM
That thing looks like Deadalus from Resistance 2.
9. GRAMMARNAZI - November 28, 2008 6:41 PM
"AWESOME"....But not as awesome as Bruce Lee.
...think I've seen one of those things floating in my toilet once.
10. C-Basstian - November 28, 2008 6:49 PM
im back mother f***ers
11. Fake!!! - November 28, 2008 6:49 PM
@7 OMG, There she is again with the movie "never back down" and the shadows are all wrong. Little to much crack for this one. To me it looks like daisy’s mom so that could be how she knows its fake. Nice capture. But they still havent cought one yet!!!!!!!
12. Mike - November 28, 2008 6:55 PM
Your latin is off - Magnapinna means "tiny magnetic penis". Close tho.
13. manalive - November 28, 2008 7:03 PM
squids are gay.
14. Hannukah Montana - November 28, 2008 7:07 PM
Another sign of an alien invasion!
15. Hunter - November 28, 2008 7:20 PM
I agree manalive, squids are homo.
16. GRAMMARNAZI - November 28, 2008 7:26 PM
Ya' I'm with you guys...squids are gay. Perhaps, we should do something severe about this reality.
....No, screw it!! I'm too lazy.
17. Daisies Mother - November 28, 2008 7:45 PM
I'm sorry everyone for my daughters behaviour.
She is mentally retarded, and the doctor said there is no cure.
I'm so ashamed that I could bring something so pathetic into this world.
Regards,
Daisies Mother.
18. Moose Knuckle - November 28, 2008 7:55 PM
Clearly the coming of cthulhu has begun, take heed, make peace with your pitiful gods regardless of what little help they will provide. Mighty Cthulhu is nigh, death will be a merciful release, madness will be eternal, his island of R'lyeh is risen, all hope is lost. There will be no begging, no reasoning, no discussion, only chaos, only a mind-warping existence of insanity awaits.
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn,"
Oh... and pew
19. Pew³ - November 28, 2008 7:57 PM
The legs don't look very edible, but chop up the body and put it in a seaweed roll with some rice, avocado, maybe a little wasabi. Yeah, I'd try it at least once. All "God's" creatures were meant to be eaten by man, right?
Pew pew pew
20. Sentinel - November 28, 2008 8:04 PM
Daisy...
If I have to read your f**king comment about the shadows being wrong one more f**king time I'm going to do something violent. OK so once upon a time it might have been kind of funny; poking fun at people who say everything is a photoshop job and all that. But seriously I think the horse is well and truly dead now and no amount of flogging will ring any more humour out of it. Give it up already.
21. ...in America! - November 28, 2008 8:05 PM
If the robots don't kill us then these f***ers will.
22. formerly SPELLINGNAZI - November 28, 2008 8:35 PM
@ "Daisies Mother" You pluralized Daisy....f***, Are you the queen alien spawning Daisy and all her retarded clones? Everyone concentrate your efforts @ 17 before she makes more!
23. the keri - November 28, 2008 8:53 PM
old news is old.
24. Ed aka the-iguana - November 28, 2008 9:54 PM
not a big deal, its just my cousin scuba diving. :|
25. man - November 28, 2008 10:20 PM
daisy is cool with me. keep it comin' yo!
26. cheebs - November 28, 2008 10:26 PM
That's a strider.
27. known - November 28, 2008 10:37 PM
Daisy!! I love it, well done!
Here I am out on the road thinking to myself "hrm, should I check geekologie to see if there's a new Daisy comment or... nah, probably with family for the holidaze..."
And here you are, with not only a comment, but one with some creativity & substance... Very nice! Perhaps a fake Daisy is giving you a run for effort and creativity, whatever it is I am happy I took time to check comments on the latest post to see what Daisy had to say about it. Thank you =)
28. formerly SPELLINGNAZI - November 28, 2008 11:09 PM
I'm thinking this one is a fake Daisy, she didn't spell "shadows" "shadow's" like she usually does...
29. Balls - November 29, 2008 12:53 AM
Peach is still hotter than daisy. Daisys just gagging for it though....
30. blah - November 29, 2008 12:54 AM
That really looks like the flood from Halo.
31. Spider - November 29, 2008 2:15 AM
i say someone kills daisy, because death seems to be taking its sweet time
32. South Coast Sean - November 29, 2008 6:03 AM
Don't you see that all this talk about her is exactly what D****y wants? She is just a troll and should just be ignored.
33. Adra - November 29, 2008 6:04 AM
Its about attention. Cry cry someone didnt get enough hugs.
Anyway...wow amazing creature!!! What an amazing world we live in. Its arms are so long....scary mother.
Gx
34. Aksel - November 29, 2008 9:01 AM
These are named Magnapinna, also known as Bigfin Squids. You can google them or wikipedia them as well. I'm an engineer that works in the oil industry and received this video quite some time ago, we we're pretty freaked out, but my dad slapped me in the head (he's an oceanographer) and set me straight. They kind of look like the aliens inside the body armor from Indipendance Day.
35. Fish Man - November 29, 2008 12:17 PM
that squid is real, they're also known as marionette squids (because the elbows look like a puppet's control panel)
36. known - November 29, 2008 3:36 PM
32: Then that's what we'll give her =) You couldn't keep yourself from whining about it just then, could you?
37. known - November 29, 2008 3:38 PM
17: hahah what a douchebag 'Daisies'
38. Blopit - November 29, 2008 5:17 PM
oh i had one of these in my fish tank, eventually we had to fish it out cause it turned out to be my cousin. nice catch though GW
39. South Coast Sean - November 29, 2008 7:19 PM
@36- no I couldn't resist. Same as you couldn't.
40. Dr.Death - November 30, 2008 3:22 AM
It's cool all the creatures in the sea
41. sashay - November 30, 2008 4:43 AM
why do you guys hate on daisy!!! i swear her comment is equivalent to "that's what she said". works every time hahaha
42. Daisy - November 30, 2008 10:10 AM
Im a sad f***wit with nothing better to do with my time.
43. bitch matthews ass band - December 2, 2008 1:05 AM
blah blah blah. blah blah blah blah. blaaaaaaaah.
44. boredom - December 2, 2008 4:15 PM
just throwing my 2 cents at daisy's comments and the fact that her comments alone seem to draw more people to this site than the actual articles. More people comment on Daisy's comments than anything else. It's almost like you people want her to keep going. Think about it.
45. Vila - December 3, 2008 4:50 PM
The oil rig video did suck - found some better footage. Pretty cool looking buggers... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95I25CATMx8
46. Flatwoods - December 8, 2008 8:30 PM
"Magnapinna" does not have anything to do with magnets or penises. Maybe I missed the joke... but it really means "big fin"- magna: big, pinna: fin (the word is literally "feather", but the outer ear, and also the fins of creatures such as squid, are referred to as the "pinna").
47. MarkmBha - September 15, 2009 4:05 AM
Amazing nature in it's beauty!
(Am I the first to comment this year?)
48. louis vuitton - September 29, 2009 5:54 AM
who knows what we might discovered next =D Alien ship under water or lochness monster.
FIRST for the first time !!