A species of deep sea squid can jettison its own bioluminescent arms to distract predators and attackers. Later, when the squid has safely escaped, it re-grows its lost limbs.
The octopus squid (Octopoteuthis deletron) is about 30 centimetres long, and is found at depths of 400 to 800 metres, in the northeast Pacific Ocean.
By: Mark Brown, Edited by: Duncan Geere
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/03/armless-squid
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