November 17, 2010
By: National Geographic
Recently a large new squid species was found living near undersea mountains in the southern Indian Ocean. The large, unnamed species is about 70cm in length which is considered to be big besides that other squid can reach 65 feet. It is thought that the species uses bio-luminescence to attract prey which is thought to be small fish and crustaceans. This particular squid species is one of 79 other squid species found on a research cruise that began in 2009. In the expedition they sampled one fifth of the world's squid species. Most of these were species already known, but some are thought to be newly discovered."We think we have more than one new species of squid," Rogers said. "This just happens to be the biggest and most glamorous one." Roger said about the species of squid.
The new squid is an amazing discovery and that they actually found 79 species of squid is also amazing. Finding 79 new species of squid is a huge amount, and that we didn’t even know about these species is so strange to know. Hopefully this won’t become a large moneymaking scheme (like the glowfish) and people start fishing them to sell them. If this were to happen it would likely lead to extinction of the species. It probably wouldn’t fit in your average fishbowl so I think that they’re safe from that.
Wow, 79 new species of squid?! When you say it wouldn't fit your average fishbowl what do you mean? I like how you didn't use science news for kids like everyone else and actually bothered to search on other sites.
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