With their extraordinarily long tentacles and elusive behavior, bigfin squids are arguably one of the most alluring animals of the deep sea. Sightings of live individuals in the wild are extremely ...

Another bigfin squid spotted by the Alvin submarine in the Gulf of Mexico, October 2000. Credit: Michael Vecchione et al, Science, December 21, 2001 Increased interest and advancements in deep-sea ...

Rare footage of a bigfin squid captured by a ROV deployed 11,000 feet deep in the Tonga Trench. Credit: Deep Sea Research ...

The otherworldly animal in this video is a Magnapinna atlantica, a bigfin squid rarely seen, let alone captured on camera. Its unmistakable tentacles and transparent mantle mark it as a deep-sea ...

And then there are the unadulterated nightmares. The bigfin squid falls into the latter category and, for our H.P. Love-cash, may be the most haunting one we’ve ever seen. They went looking for ...

Little is known about most magnapinnid, or bigfin squid, species. The individual pictured here was spotted by the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer in the Gulf of Mexico. Recently, a magnapinnid was ...

The rare creature has been identified as a bigfin squid. The bigfin squid, which had large fins, eight arms and a pair of tentacles, was spotted during the "Windows to the Deep 2021: Southeast ROV ...

“It’s like a squid-y looking thing,” one of the scientists said. The tentacled animal was identified as a bigfin squid, the organization said on Twitter. Up close, the bigfin squid has a ...

Erin Malsbury The Pacific bigfin squid (Magnapinna pacifica) in the Smithsonian collections that Mike Vecchione and Richard E. Young used to describe the deepest-known species of squid.