Two amazing videos of the vampire Squid and a camouflaging Octopus.
For years marine biologists have puzzled over what the mysterious vampire squid eats.
Recent research by Henk-Jan Hoving and Bruce Robison at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute finally reveals the answer.
These deep-sea creatures use long, retractile filaments to passively harvest particles and aggregates of detritus, or marine snow, sinking from the waters above.
This feeding strategy, unknown in any other cephalopod (this group of animals includes squid and octopods), allows vampire squid to thrive in the oxygen minimum zone where there are few predators but marine detritus is abundant.
Even more amazing is this video of a camouflaging octopus.
The south shore of Oahu is being invaded by something strange from sea, that even has sand crabs running for cover.
"It's the first time I've seen this, I've never seen it before," says beach goer Bruce Kuwana.
"It's really weird, it looks like you want to eat it like a little berry," says beach goer Sonya Lake.
"There are probably millions I'd say," says beach goer Scott Paddock.
If you look closely the entire shoreline is dotted with tiny, purple creatures all curled up.
"Looks like it has about it 6 legs on each side," says Lake. "Yeah it's like an avatar crab."
"When something washes up like this you don't know what to expect, maybe Tsunami stuff," says Kuwana.
It's something many have never seen before. And no one we found knew what they were.
"I definitely want to know where they came from and what they are all about," says Paddock.
Even the biologists at the Waikiki Aquarium are scratching their heads. They've been getting reports of the pea-sized crabs from Kahala to Ala Moana, all this week.
"The lifeguard called and asked what these things were because she had reports of surfers were actually have these things crawl up on their boards and onto them," says Norton Chan, Waikiki Aquarium Biologist.
He can't find a specific name for the animal - all he knows is they are some type of crab still in the larvae stage.
"What you are seeing is a swimming stage probably a few more molts before they settle into their actual crab stage itself," says Chan.
Likely the ones we spotted on the sand were dead or will be soon. He estimates there could have been millions that came up onto our beaches in the past few days.
"I don't think it's that common but ever so often when conditions are right these animals really start coming in," says Chan.
Waikiki Aquarium officials are saving some, hoping to keep them alive long enough to see how they grow.
"There's a lot of things we don't know about the ocean so any opportunity like this is a great learning experience," says Chan.
At this point it's still unknown where these crabs came from, how big they'll get and what they eat."
Witnesses claim they captured pictures of "water monsters" creating waves in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Thursday morning.
A worker at the Kanas Lake Scenic Zone, along with his colleagues and other tourists, were on a cloud-sightseeing visit when they noticed a swift-moving creature in the lake. That's when the group started recording.
The group described the sighting as "conspicuous white spots" swimming at a high speed in several directions. It's hard to make out the exact object in the amateur video, which shows a stream of white waves moving at a fast pace. The wave patterns are very strange indeed...
