Video, taken near the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, shows a juvenile ... that they were seeing a glacial glass squid in its frigid, deep environment for the first time.

“This is not the giant animal we’d expect the colossal squid to be,” says Aaron Evans, an independent scientist and glass ... deep, open waters around Antarctica and in the Southern Ocean ...

Glass sponges are found along the deep sea, providing a hiding place for small critters along the seafloor. For one newly discovered species, glass sponges provide both a home and a hunting ground.