A giant squid has been captured on video for only the second time ever. Researchers aboard the RV Point Sur were able to capture the creature in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone. The giant squid is at least 3 to 3.7 m (10 to 12 ft.) in length. The video is courtesy of Edie Widder, who has previously written about the
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A new series of U.S. Postal Service stamps features photographs of bioluminescent deep sea creatures taken by Edith Widder, founder of the Ocean Research and Conservation Association (ORCA). The images include a crown jellyfish (Atolla wyvillei), bamboo coral (Keratoisis Flexibilis), a marine worm (Flota), a deep sea comb jelly (Bathocyro fosteri), a midwater jelly fish (Atolla Vanhoeffeni) and a deep
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