British photographer Graham Ekins snapped one of the rare photos of squid in flight:

"Capturing the flying squid is one of the highlights of my photography career," he says. I can imagine it would be!

The Essex reporter may have gotten a bit over-enthusiastic, though, claiming in the story about Ekins that

These flying squid use jet propulsion to leap out of the Pacific Ocean and soar up to 65ft into the air.

65 feet is . . . kind of a lot. I've never heard of flying squid getting more than a few feet above the surface.