Strange, Rare Deep Sea Squid Filmed Alive in Wild for First Time Ever with Help from the Schmidt Ocean Institute

Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute filmed the species off the coast of Australia and later posted the video on Twitter, saying they had “exciting news.”

“This appears to be the FIRST observation of Spirula, aka ram’s horn squid, alive + in its natural environment,” it wrote. “Very rarely seen or captured, they have many extinct relatives, but are only living member of genus Spirula, family Spirulidae, and order Spirulida.”