By Susan Milius
Scattered reports from around the world have convinced scientists that the ocean depths hold a dramatic kind of squid they’ve never collected nor officially described.
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This isn’t the elusive giant squid but a smaller creature with spaghetti arms that stick out from its body at right angles and then turn sharply down for several meters.