A curious creature that appears to be half octopus, half squid was found in waters at Keahole Point in Hawaii and remains unidentified today. Local biologists think that it could possibly be a new species.

The creature is believed to have been sucked up in a deep seawater pipeline at the Natural Energy Laboratory Hawaii Authority at Keahole. This pipeline pumps colde water up from 3,000 feet below sea level, and occassional deep-sea marine life gets caught in a filter in the line.

Workers who discovered the creature call it an "octosquid" because it has the body of a squid and the tentacles of an octopus.

The octosquid stayed alive for three days once it was found by researchers. It will now be shipped to the University of Hawaii Manoa campus for evaluation.

Richard Young, and oceanography professor at the University said that the specimen tentatively belongs to the genus Mastigoteuthis, but that the species not yet determined.