Researchers recently captured the first live footage of a colossal quid in its natural habitat, thousands of feet under the sea near Antarctica.

The world’s largest species of squid has been seen in the wild for the first time ever. The colossal squid, which can grow up to seven metres long, had never been caught on camera before. But that all changed when not-for-profit research group the Schmidt Ocean Institute sent a deep sea camera into the southern Atlantic Ocean last month.

The footage of the colossal squid—the largest invertebrate on the planet—was recorded in the South Atlantic Ocean of the sub-Antarctic region.