ALCES (AUT Squid Squad)

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#ColossalSquid has been filmed in its natural habitat for the first time! Filmed in #Antarctica by @SchmidtOcean, we just had a press conference to share the news. @ALCESonline provides the voiceover and context for the video. youtu.be/lzPoG9H8Hlo @Te_Papa @PureOceanFund

The first confirmed footage of a juvenile colossal squid in its natural habitat shows a delicate and graceful animal - far from the "monster" narrative we see all too often. @ALCESonline @AUTuni theconversation.com/a-century-afte…

Our beloved #Blobfish has been voted the #NZFishoftheYear! Second place went to the #OrangeRoughy, proving people love the #deepsea. Check out our #CoffeeWithAndrew episode about the origin of that iconic image. youtube.com/watch?v=Ilwhhw…

A huge thanks to @Intrepid_Travel for having me and @ALCESonline aboard to deploy our #ProjectESCA #squid lure in #Antartica.

Happy birthday colossal squid! The species was described in 1925 so @ThomLinley and I did a centenary episode on @DeepSeaPod - armatusoceanic.com/podcast/056-co… 🦑🎉 Gorgeous artwork courtesy of Gareth, a guest on our recent #Antarctic voyage with @Intrepid_Travel for #ProjectESCA

A nice side effect of joining @Intrepid_Travel is great #scicomm - talks and updates on #ProjectESCA and #colossalsquid. Loving the guest engagement and even #fanart! Last night they were even on the @DeepSeaPod. @ALCESonline @PureOceanFund @Te_Papa @AutScience

Master Squidcrafter Heather has been at it again. Not sure @Intrepid_Travel realized just what they were in for by having the #ProjectESCA team aboard--we brought a rather large stowaway! #colossalsquid @ThomLinley @PureOceanFund @Te_Papa @AutScience

We have arrived at the #7thContinent on our #ColossalSquid quest and are deploying our #ProjectESCA camera from the Ocean Endeavour. A big thanks to those who got @ALCESonline and me here: @PureOceanFund, @Te_Papa, @AutScience and @Intrepid_Travel #Antarctica #deepsea

It's happening! @ALCESonline and I are out with @Intrepid_Travel deploying #ProjectESCA in search of the #ColossalSquid. Supported by @PureOceanFund, @Te_Papa and @AutScience, we have developed a suitcase-sized light lure and camera system. #deepsea #deepocean #Antarctica

@jestkelly @Rhinobatos_sp Beautiful! Looks like a young Onykia

@Rhinobatos_sp Juvenile onychoteuthid, @ALCESonline ?

これ本当にわからない。何

We're off! Setting sail for Antarctica to chase some squids with the #ProjectESCA camera system and @ThomLinley, thanks to @PureOceanFund and @Intrepid_Travel . Bring me that horizon!

Good thing the ones I'm after aren't usually at the beach! Beagle Channel / Tierra del Fuego National Park. (Could I pick up an urchin test or crab moult though?)

Ceph street art sighting! Spotted these arms on the side of a building in Ushuaia, Argentina, while out and about with @ThomLinley as we prep to take #ProjectESCA to the Antarctic Peninsula next week

@jestkelly @7segLED Heather thinks probably Mastigotragus pyrodes or Magnoteuthis microlucens--both known from North Pacific and the arms/tentacles/fins are about right. Both should have ventral photophores but can't tell size from this clip (microscopic in M. microlucens). Great footage!

@7segLED Beautiful video. Definitely a mastigoteuthid, but would need Heather from @ALCESonline to chip in here. It’s not an Idioteuthis or Mastigopsis, but that’s the best I can do. Thanks for sharing!

ムチイカ科の仲間 目がとても美しい。 触腕の先に沢山の小さな吸盤があり、ハエとりがみの様にプランクトンを捕まえていると考えられているそうです。 沖縄 | 水深:900m Mastigoteuthis? The eyes of this squid are very beautiful. Okinawa | Depth:900m

Close Inkounter! #ProjectESCA gets its next squiddy visitor, a glacial squid (P. glacialis) around 800m. It gifts us a few puffs of ink, then drifts back into the dark Antarctic #deepsea. #antarcticclimateconnections @ThomLinley @Te_Papa @SchmidtOcean @PureOceanFund

With our new deep-sea low-light camera on #ProjectESCA, we can see #bioluminescence as well as the animals illuminated by our lights. This might be a 'shrimp spew', a series of blobs of glowing mucous produced as a decoy to give the animal a chance to escape a perceived threat

youtube.com/watch?v=Jr89SH… A feel for #AntarcticClimateConnections and why this project's important.

@Brachioteuthis @cefafalopodo @jestkelly Antarctic glacial squid, Psychroteuthis glacialis. Other option is Filippovia but one of your later frames shows the clubs better and it's Psychro :)

@cefafalopodo @jestkelly @ALCESonline Any clues to this Antarctic squid :)

I hope our lure attracts squi... THUNK! #ProjectESCA works! Squid like the lure and a 360 camera means nowhere to hide. Likely a glacial or clubhook #squid, this is 200m in #Antarctica #AntarcticClimateConnections @ALCESonline @SchmidtOcean @Te_Papa @PureOceanFund

@cefafalopodo @jestkelly @Slyp9GD8aabtzMD @squid_rui @jeffday No they're quite new, still working through a collection of tissues. Indian Ocean (not surprising)

@ALCESonline @jestkelly @Slyp9GD8aabtzMD @squid_rui @jeffday Are those sequences published?

久々の灯火。ぽんぽんちゃん出現！