Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species Discovered
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<p>A <a href="https://www.livescience.com/animals/mollusks/very-novel-and-very-puzzling-unknown-species-of-squid-spotted-burying-itself-upside-down-pretending-to-be-a-plant">new species of squid</a>. pretends to be a plant:</p><blockquote> <p>Scientists have filmed a never-before-seen species of deep-sea squid burying itself upside down in the seafloor—a behavior never documented in cephalopods. They captured the bizarre scene while studying the depths of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), an abyssal plain in the Pacific Ocean targeted for deep-sea mining.</p> <p>The team described the encounter in a study published Nov. 25 in the journal <a href="https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.70257"><i>Ecology</i></a>, writing that the animal appears to be an undescribed species of whiplash squid. At a depth of roughly 13,450 feet (4,100 meters), the squid had buried almost its entire body in sediment and was hanging upside down, with its siphon and two long <a href="https://www.livescience.com/difference-arms-tentacles">tentacles</a> held rigid above the seafloor.</p> <p>“The fact that this is a squid and it’s covering itself in mud—it’s novel for squid and the fact that it is upside down,” lead author <a href="https://www.sams.ac.uk/people/research-students/mejia-saenz-alejandra-/">Alejandra Mejía-Saenz</a>, a deep-sea ecologist at the Scottish Association for Marine Science, told Live Science. “We had never seen anything like that in any cephalopods…. It was very novel and very puzzling.”</p> </blockquote><p>As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.</p><p><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/06/new-blog-moderation-policy.html">Blog moderation policy.</a></p><div class="spu-placeholder" style="display:none"></div><div class="addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content addtoany_content_bottom"><div class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_20 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://securityboulevard.com/2026/01/friday-squid-blogging-new-squid-species-discovered/" data-a2a-title="Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species Discovered"><a class="a2a_button_twitter" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsecurityboulevard.com%2F2026%2F01%2Ffriday-squid-blogging-new-squid-species-discovered%2F&linkname=Friday%20Squid%20Blogging%3A%20New%20Squid%20Species%20Discovered" title="Twitter" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_linkedin" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/linkedin?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsecurityboulevard.com%2F2026%2F01%2Ffriday-squid-blogging-new-squid-species-discovered%2F&linkname=Friday%20Squid%20Blogging%3A%20New%20Squid%20Species%20Discovered" title="LinkedIn" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_facebook" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsecurityboulevard.com%2F2026%2F01%2Ffriday-squid-blogging-new-squid-species-discovered%2F&linkname=Friday%20Squid%20Blogging%3A%20New%20Squid%20Species%20Discovered" title="Facebook" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_reddit" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/reddit?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsecurityboulevard.com%2F2026%2F01%2Ffriday-squid-blogging-new-squid-species-discovered%2F&linkname=Friday%20Squid%20Blogging%3A%20New%20Squid%20Species%20Discovered" title="Reddit" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_email" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/email?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsecurityboulevard.com%2F2026%2F01%2Ffriday-squid-blogging-new-squid-species-discovered%2F&linkname=Friday%20Squid%20Blogging%3A%20New%20Squid%20Species%20Discovered" title="Email" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share_save addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share"></a></div></div><p class="syndicated-attribution">*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from <a href="https://www.schneier.com/">Schneier on Security</a> authored by <a href="https://securityboulevard.com/author/0/" title="Read other posts by Bruce Schneier">Bruce Schneier</a>. Read the original post at: <a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/friday-squid-blogging-new-squid-species-discovered.html">https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/friday-squid-blogging-new-squid-species-discovered.html</a> </p>