Our squid study made The New York Times! 🦑✨ The piece highlights a novel behaviour we observed during abyssal ROV surveys (>4000 m depth) - a reminder of how little we still know about deep-sea ecosystems www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/s...

New suspected species, coined the ‘muddy squid’, displays ‘unusual’ burrowing behaviour observed for the first time in the deep sea. 👀🦑 Read more here: noc.ac.uk/news/discove... @samsocean.bsky.social

Why do we see so few squid in the abyss? Because they hide from us, pretending to be sponges!🦑 New paper by @alemejiasaenz.bsky.social captures a potential new whiplash-squid species that burrows between nodules at the #CCZ, world's largest region targeted for #deepseamining doi.org/10.1002/ecy....