Pacific squid flashes its huge attack 'headlights'

The Dana squid has all the tools of a top ocean predator, including a pair of brilliant "headlights" it flashes at the moment it goes in for the kill.They are intended to dazzle the prey, to make the victim freeze for those few moments longer until it can be captured in a death embrace.Scientists have just filmed this rare squid in full attack mode, on a research cruise in the central Pacific. It was about 1,000m…