Squid. Squid. Squid.

It's really stinky.

You little squid. You little squid.

The cellar is ugly, dark, and stinky.

A squid has ten arms.

A squid has ten arms.

A squid has ten legs.

And that was a Humboldt squid, a juvenile Humboldt squid, about three feet long.

Vibrio fischeri lives in this squid.

So, you're planning to keep eating these stinky lunch boxes?

It could also be an unhappy squid.

So for the deep sea squid hunt,

The crux of the issue is that there's this stinky asset here.

But the black eyed squid takes the prize.

Come back here! Gotcha, Morph! That's it, you little squid.

It was Mike that got me invited to the squid summit, a gathering of squid experts at the Discovery Channel that summer during Shark Week.

The guy in the pizza parlor is a friend from the Bureau. Who, stinky man?

Large catches of squid are a sign of a coming earthquake.

Now this guy, this bigfin squid, is seven meters in length.

In the next bit, we're going to see a couple squid.

So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom.

So the banks have to figure out what to do with this tranche, which is the stinky equity tranche.

What was not mentioned in the Discovery documentary was that the bait squid that Dr. Kubodera used, a one meter long diamondback squid had a light attached to it, a squid jig of the type that longline fishermen use, and I think it was this light that brought the giant in.

This little squid is called the fire shooter because of its ability to do this.

I wonder what the person who cooked with squid ink for the first time was thinking?

Now, I'm told that's not not just a squid phenomenon with males, but I don't know.

There's jellyfish, there's squid, there's a whole lot of different crustaceans, there's even fish that can do this.

The reason the squid is willing to put up with these shenanigans is because it wants that light.

He can put a rubber glove on his head and run naked in the store yelling Hi, I'm a squid!

What the squid has developed is a shutter that can open and close over this specialized light organ housing the bacteria.

Whereas the other three piles were dead, dark and stinky, and the PAH's the aromatic hydrocarbons went from 10,000 parts per million to less than 200 in eight weeks.

This is a squid, over six feet long, that is so new to science, it cannot be placed in any known scientific family.

Now the bacteria are dilute, that little hormone molecule is gone, so they're not making light but of course the squid doesn't care.

You hear about giant squid and things like that, but some of these animals get up to be approximately 140, 160 feet long.

So, the mycelium becomes saturated with the oil, and then, when we returned six weeks later, all the tarps were removed, all the other piles were dead, dark and stinky.

For example, this shrimp releases its bioluminescent chemicals into the water just the way a squid or an octopus would release an ink cloud.

A lot of them can release their luciferin or luferase in the water just the way a squid or an octopus will release an ink cloud.

The way that this symbiosis works is that this little squid lives just off the coast of Hawaii, just in sort of shallow knee deep water.

And as the day goes by the bacteria double, they release the molecule, and then light comes on at night, exactly when the squid wants it.

I gave a talk on unobtrusive viewing and optical luring of deep sea squid in which I emphasized the importance of using quiet, unobtrusive platforms for exploration.

The squid is nocturnal, so during the day it buries itself in the sand and sleeps, but then at night it has to come out to hunt.

But then if you think about it, the squid has this terrible problem because it's got this dying, thick culture of bacteria and it can't sustain that.

On bright nights when there is lots of starlight or moonlight that light can penetrate the depth of the water the squid lives in, since it's just in those couple feet of water.

Now, here's a male on the left and a female on the right, and the male has managed to split his coloration so the female only always sees the kinder, gentler squid in him.

And it opens and closes the shutter so the amount of light coming out of the bottom which is made by the bacterium exactly matches how much light hits the squid's back, so the squid doesn't make a shadow.