A squid with shiny, bioluminescent "spotlights" tipping two of its arms and what look like waxy red lips shared a close encounter with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) in deep ocean waters near Hawaii.
The deepwater star of the video is estimated to measure between 3 and 7 feet (1 and 2 meters) in length. Broad, flexible fins extend from the squid's mantle; as they furl and flap, these fins steer T. danae through the water.
While the Dana octopus squid may lack a squid's trademark trailing tentacles, it makes up for them in spectacular lighting equipment, with two of its muscular arms ending in lidded light organs called "photophores." About the size of lemons, these photophores are the largest known light-producing organs in the animal kingdom, said Mike Vecchione, a zoologist at the NOAA National Systematics Laboratory at the Smithsonian Institution and a curator of cephalopods at the National Museum of Natural History, both in Washington, D.C.
Also noted was how bright these photophores are, showing up on video with the already bright lights of the ROV.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 13 2015, @02:55PM
Yeah I thought the same as you. Eventually I figured out the video is embedded from ooyala.com, but allowing requests to that still caused the video to stop with Invalid Content Specified. I managed to screenshot the "embed" code for the link which seems to create an iframe with the following URL:
http://player.ooyala.com/iframe.html#pbid=59b4de92e6b44145b5b692f41dd00d0a&ec=RvbzdleTr3k_51i-GXMNO9V39I8_uXQ7&docUrl=http://player.ooyala.com/iframe.js#pbid=59b4de92e6b44145b5b692f41dd00d0a&ec=RvbzdleTr3k_51i-GXMNO9V39I8_uXQ7 [ooyala.com]
If you open that URL in the browser, it says "Squid Grabs Submarine - What Was It Thinking?" but clicking the play button for me still results in the Invalid Content Specified error.
A search for squid on ooyala.com for "squid" yields no results, despite allowing requests to google.com and google apis on Request Policy.
I give up. *yawns*