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    Researchers say rare large fin squid have been found in Australian waters for the first time

    • Last Update: 2021-03-15
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    Xinhua News Agency, Canberra, November 12 (Reporter Bai Xu YueDongxing) Australia's Federal Scientific and Industrial Research Organization issued a communique on the 12th, said that the organization's researchers in the Great Australian Bay in southern Australia captured a rare shot of five large fin squid, this is the first time in Australian waters found this musd animal.
    according to the bulletin, in a deep-sea scientific examination arranged by the research organization, the researchers used a camera to photograph the squid at a depth of two or three kilometers in the waters of the Great Australian Bay. The paper has been published in the American journal Public Library of Science.
    marine scientist Deborah Osterhag said the large fin squid belongs to the giant fin squid, a deep-sea squid with larger fin sizes and long filaments at the ends of its wrists, feet and tentacles.
    " sightings of large fin squid are rare. This is the first record in Australian waters, and only a dozen confirmed sightings have been made worldwide. Osterhag said.
    Osterhag said the researchers measured a large fin squid using a parallel laser meter and found that its body was more than 1.8 meters long, but its wrists and ends of the tentacles protruded more than 11 times the length of the body. They also found a special entanglement between the wrists and feet of large fin squid and their fine wires, a scenario that had never been observed before.
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