"New species are a dime a dozen in the deep sea," says Vecchione, "and I suspect there are a lot of very weird things down there."
"Worldwide Observations of Remarkable Deep-Sea Squids," by Michael Vecchione at National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., was co-authored for Science by R. E. Young at University of Hawaii in Honolulu, Hawaii; D. J. Lindsay at Japan Marine Science and Technology Center in Kanagawa-ken, Japan; D. A. Clague at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, California; J. M. Bernhard at University of South Carolina in Columbia; W. W. Sager at Texas A&M University in College Station; M. Segonzac at IFREMER/CENTOB in Plouzan, France; and A. Guerra, A. F. Gonzalez and F. J. Rocha at ECOBIOMAR in Vigo, Spain.
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