In honor of all the hullaballoo about California market squid (hullaballoo which I will soon be adding more to, stay tuned!) here are some pictures I took a few years ago. The subject is a baby market squid viewed through a microscope.

First it opens its mantle, or body cavity, to fill it with water:


Then it squeezes all the water out and goes zoom! This picture was taken milliseconds before it disappeared from view: