The natural world continues to provide marvels, once again showing us something new. In March, an expedition near the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean captured the first video footage of a live Colossal Squid, a juvenile only 12 inches long. The Colossal Squid is the largest extant invertebrate on earth, and for most of the 20th century, much of what we knew about them came from the scars the species left on sperm whales and from a few beaks found in whale stomachs. Since then, only 12 complete Colossal Squids have been collected, and now for the first time we can see one living in its natural environment.

See, 2025 isn’t all bad.

David Crotty

David Crotty

David Crotty is a Senior Consultant at Clarke & Esposito, a boutique management consulting firm focused on strategic issues related to professional and academic publishing and information services. Previously, David was the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press. He oversaw journal policy across OUP’s journals program, drove technological innovation, and served as an information officer. David acquired and managed a suite of research society-owned journals with OUP, and before that was the Executive Editor for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, where he created and edited new science books and journals, along with serving as a journal Editor-in-Chief. He has served on the Board of Directors for the STM Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing and CHOR, Inc., as well as The AAP-PSP Executive Council. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech before moving from the bench to publishing.

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Honestly love the facts that A) this colossal squid is just a lil bebe, and B) the underwater vehicle that captured the footage is named SuBastian

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