The Magnapinna Squid is One Crazy Looking Creature

See, the oil industry isn’t all bad. Thanks to a Shell oil company remotely operated vehicle at a deep drilling site, scientists have obtained a video of a badass rare squid called the Magnapinna.
 

The crazy-looking creature (it has elbows!) was located about 200 miles off of Houston, Texas, one-and-a-half miles below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. This area is the Perdido drilling site, one of the world’s deepest oil and gas developments. Although the Magnapinna has been spotted a dozen times in various oceans, this video marks the first time it has been seen at an oil development.
 

In the video, courtesy of Shell, you can see the unusual alien-looking squid has big fins that resemble elephant ears and super long arms and tentacles that extend from what seems to be elbows.
 

If we’re going to keep getting awesome videos like the one above (and if by awesome you mean jerky and hard to follow), than drill, baby, drill.
 

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