A long cluster of diamond squid eggs was filmed off Bunaken National Park in Sulawesi, Indonesia in May 2019 floating amid plastic waste.<br /><br />This rare sight - which resembles a long slinky toy – is actually a mass of thousands of pink eggs all moving together. <br /><br />But the mesmerising sight is brought into stark reality as it floats with the current in a stream of plastic waste. Meanwhile, a shoal of curious red-toothed triggerfish feasting on the structure. <br /><br />The diamond-shaped squid, also known as thysanoteuthis rhombus, lives in tropical waters and the egg mass can measure up to two metres in length.<br /><br />"It was sinking deeper down the steep walls of the coral reef, so they couldn't follow it," the filmer told Newsflare.<br /><br />"Later, when they came up from the dive, they saw the same strange thing (or another of its kind) again, floating in a stream of plastic waste. It is thought that at least 8 million tons of plastic end up in our oceans every year, polluting the seas around the globe. This weird creature ended up floating with the same currents."
