Jewel Squid

This beautiful jewel squid (Histioteuthis bonnellii) can be found swimming above the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, at depths of 500-2,000 meters (1,640-6,562 feet). The “jewels” covering the body are bioluminescent photophores. But these squids can't bargain for their lives with those jewels: they have been found in the stomachs of sperm whales, swordfish and sharks.

This jewel squid (Histioteuthis bonnellii) lives above the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
David Shale/MAR-ECO, Census of Marine Life

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Squids

Go squids!!!!!!!!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 01/28/2013 - 7:30pm.

it is cool

it is cool

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 04/26/2010 - 6:12pm.

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