It was a year ago, in June 2019, when a team of scientists exploring in the Gulf of Mexico captured the first-ever footage of a giant squid in U.S. waters. The video also represents just the second time a giant squid has been observed in its natural habitat. The squid was imaged at a depth of 759 meters (2,490 feet) and looked to be 10 - 12 feet long, making it still just a baby. . . “I think we often think of the deep sea as out of sight, out of mind,” said Sonke Johnsen, a biology professor at

The squid might be nature's most impressive quick-change artist. Their skin works like a living display screen, packed with millions of chromatophores, or color-changing cells, that let them match any background faster than you can blink. These ocean athletes can rocket through water at 25 mph - faster than any Olympic swimmer. But speed isn't their only talent: they're also brilliant problem solvers, with complex cognitive abilities. Using flashing light displays to communicate and hunt, squid

The giant squid is famously elusive, but researchers have captured the first known footage of it hunting by using a decoy jellyfish attached to a camera. | New Scientist

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