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• Large squid lights up for attack
  2/14/07 from BBC News: Big deep-sea squid emit blinding flashes of light as they attack their prey, research shows. Taningia danae's spectacular light show was revealed in video footage* taken in deep waters off Chichijima Island in the North Pacific.
  
  Read the full journal article (pdf) and view additional video clips in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Hunting behaviour and bioluminescence of a large deep-sea, eight armed squid

*This video scared the bejeebers out of the "did you know?" editors; and their personal assistant thanks her mother for not letting her watch "Jaws".

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