That’s what the creature looked like from a distance: an untoasted cylinder floating eerily upright in the ocean’s twilight zone, like takeout from Triton. The animal was about as long as a breakfast sausage, with wafer-thin fins and one large, searching eye. Dr. Lindsay’s Zoom feed was fuzzy, and the burrito creature initially seemed a mystery. So Valerie Cornet, a master’s student in marine biology at James Cook University, subbed in to narrate alongside Dr. Lindsay. Just before the creature wiggled offscreen, Ms. Cornet speculated that it could be a squid.

Source: New York Times October 31, 2020 09:00 UTC