In a video shared by The Associated Press, squid researcher from the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, Dr. Kat Bolstad, states that Schmidt Ocean Institute captured the first live footage of a small colossal squid during a deep sea discovery expedition around the South Sandwich Islands.

Most of what we know about the elusive creature comes from research on its remains found in whale stomachs, but scientists just filmed a one-foot-long juvenile in the South Atlantic Ocean