« He doesn’t look like Kraken at all » – Liberation

Long tentacles, large red eyes and a translucent body. Suspended in the most total darkness, 593 meters deep, detaches the silhouette of an unusual animal. A colossal calmar, a gigantic species of cephalopod evolving in the Antarctic abyss, has just been filmed for the first time, on March 9, in its natural habitat during an offshore expedition of the South Sandwich Islands, in the middle of the southern ocean. The individual measures only 30 centimeters, because of his young age, but the discovery is immense. Scientists were looking for a century after the animal’s remains in the stomach of a whale. A long-term hunt until the appearance of this specimen in the bundle of a underwater robot of the Schmidt Ocean Institute, which works to discover new sea species. Kat Bolstad, a native biologist in New Zealand and specialist in deep water cephalopods, just returns from another expedition on the trace of colossal calmars when it is requested to identify the baby mollusc. She comes back, for Release, On this stealthy and precious appearance, which allows us to know a little more about the mysterious fauna evolving in the great seabed.

You were not on board the ship that day. How did you learn that colossal calmar had just been filmed?

I came back from another expedition to Antarctica, with the aim of films