She also pointed out the rust-colored spots on the squid's body. Those color cells suggest the squid can switch back and forth between being transparent like it is in the video, to being opaque.

The squid has lost some of its “baby features,” such as stalked eyes that stick out the side of its head. Rather, the eyes are part of the head, and the head and body are more proportional to ...

The body of the squid is 1.70 metres long plus the 40 centimetres of the head. The non- retractile arms reach out 2.30 metres and the retractile, tentacles, six metres adding up to eight metres.