Already nicknamed "Octosquid," this ruby-red creature has the body of a squid but with the eight tentacles of an octopus.

The scientists at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA) caught this foot long enigma of the deep quite accidentally last week from one of their 3,000 foot deep pipelines that sucks up deep-sea water for their lab. It got caught in one of their filter tanks and stayed alive for three days after capture.

Along with the octosquid, three black rattail fish and four jellyfish were captured. All the others were dead except for the smallest rattail fish. It wasn't alive for long though since the octosquid ate it up. Jan War, operations manager of NELHA, said that the fish that come up the pipeline usually die when they get sucked up because of the rapid change in pressure. The octosquid wasn't affected though because invertebrates (creatures without a spine) aren't affected by pressure change.

The folks down at Hawaii are planning on ways to check the filters for their pipelines more often - a process which is usually done years apart - because they keep coming up with rather odd finds. They still have a starfish they don't know the species of and to this day is just labeled "animal." Pipelines that go down at different depths actually come up with different kinds of species. Who knows what else is down there? The depths are by large the biggest container of new and unknown life. Needless to say, the scientists involved are enthusiastic with the prospects.