{"id":10281,"date":"2026-01-31T05:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T05:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/friday-squid-blogging-new-squid-species-discovered-html\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T05:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T05:03:56","slug":"friday-squid-blogging-new-squid-species-discovered-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/friday-squid-blogging-new-squid-species-discovered-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species Discovered<\/div>\n

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A new species of squid<\/a>. pretends to be a plant:<\/p>\n

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Scientists have filmed a never-before-seen species of deep-sea squid burying itself upside down in the seafloor\u2014a behavior never documented in cephalopods. They captured the bizarre scene while studying the depths of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), an abyssal plain in the Pacific Ocean targeted for deep-sea mining.<\/p>\n

The team described the encounter in a study published Nov. 25 in the journal Ecology<\/i><\/a>, writing that the animal appears to be an undescribed species of whiplash squid. At a depth of roughly 13,450 feet (4,100 meters), the squid had buried almost its entire body in sediment and was hanging upside down, with its siphon and two long tentacles<\/a> held rigid above the seafloor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that this is a squid and it\u2019s covering itself in mud\u2014it\u2019s novel for squid and the fact that it is upside down,\u201d lead author Alejandra Mej\u00eda-Saenz<\/a>, a deep-sea ecologist at the Scottish Association for Marine Science, told Live Science. \u201cWe had never seen anything like that in any cephalopods\u2026. It was very novel and very puzzling.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven\u2019t covered.<\/p>\n

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Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species Discovered A new species of squid. pretends to be a plant: Scientists have filmed a never-before-seen species of deep-sea squid burying itself upside down in the seafloor\u2014a behavior never documented in cephalopods. They captured the bizarre scene while studying the depths of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), an abyssal plain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,91,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-10281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-schneier","category-squid","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}