Living in the twilight zone, cockeye squid float between two worlds and have adapted to keep an eye on both
, a new Guardian Seascape series will profile some of the most recently discovered weird, wonderful, majestic, ridiculous, hardcore and mind-blowing creatures. They reveal how much there is still to learn about the least known environment on Earth – and how much there is to protect. The right eyeball, meanwhile, ends up less than half the diameter of its partner. The squid aims it downwards, scanning for flashes of glowing animals against the dark waters below.
“It’s a lovely example of how they exploit and inhabit those two very different environments,” says Jon Ablett, senior curator of molluscs at the Natural History Museum in London.have been known to science for decades, scientists recently caught one on an expedition around the remote Atlantic islands of Ascension and Saint Helena which brilliantly lived up to another name for the creature – the jewel squid.
“When you get within about 15cm suddenly everything glows red, and the closer you go, the stronger the colour is,” says James Maclaine, senior curator of fish at the Natural History Museum, who brought a UV torch on the expedition to see which animals perform this trick. “It’s really dramatic,” he says.
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