An alien-looking, see-through squid with demonic red eyes has been filmed in the deep waters off the coast of Alaska.
Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ocean Exploration team spotted the glass squid (Taonius borealis) on July 15 while operating a remote-operated vehicle (ROV) at a depth of around 2,300 feet (700 meters) in the Pacific waters surrounding Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. The dive was the first of NOAA’s Seascape Alaska 3 expedition onboard the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer, which aimed to map unexplored areas of the deep sea in the state’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
One of the most striking parts of the new video is the see-through squid’s visible internal organs. The largest red-colored organ is the digestive gland. It is flanked on either side by two white sacs, which are the gills.
During the video, there is a brief moment in which one of the squid’s eyeballs appears to briefly retract within the surrounding purple discs. This behavior is the equivalent to humans and other animals blinking, NOAA representatives wrote.
