Divers discovered this gigantic transparent blob floating in the sea off the Turkish coast. What could it be?
It looks like that's a squid egg mass, containing millions of eggs and embryos, drifting deep in the ocean until it hatches out, releasing a vast swarm of tiny predators in one overwhelming cloud. If you're not going to tend to your babies, that's a smart strategy for giving a percentage of your relatively helpless young a chance to live.
Oh, ignore the music in the video. It's insufficiently doom-laden and lacking in minor keys.
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