It's a small squid world, after all. A recent study shows that giant squid from all around the globe have remarkably low levels of genetic diversity — essentially, writes Tina Hesman Saey, they're all more closely related than scientists previously thought. Giant squid, as it turns out, are a single species, traveling, living, and breeding all around the planet.

  • Boundegar

    …and watching us, and planning.

  • http://www.piruett.se/ Magnus Edlund

    Traveling, living, breeding … and singing songs about gold fish.

  • chaopoiesis

    Presumably the deep-ocean environment is fairly consistent regardless of latitude… that might help. I wonder if any of the climate-change models have anything to say about what might happen down there.

  • Petzl

    Well, one more creationist talking point.