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Giant Squid Seen Live, Filmed

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I am amazed a thread wasn't already started.

They have seen, and filmed, a giant squid at depth, in its natural habitat!

No, that's inadequate:

They have seen, and filmed, a giant freaking squid!
In its habitat, in the deep ocean.

The Kraken has finally moved from mystery monster to merely largely mysterious co-denizen of the planet. What an amazing day for science; what an amazing day for us all.

I have been an avid fan of this little-known behemoth since I was about 8 years old and discovered they existed. I have to think that others are equally excited about this.

Congratulations to Dr. Kubocera (hope I spelled that right) and his team; and thanks, Discovery Channel, for helping to fund this. Because it's really, really awesome!


Chuckling and rubbing my hands, can't wait for the TV special, Miss_Kitt
 
Foster Zygote said:
Didn't a Japanese marine biologist already get a brief image of one?
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There were still photos of one attacking bait, and video of that had already been hauled above the surface. Never video of one hunting in its habitat.

Still waiting on something like this for sasquatch. :rolleyes:
 
A few years ago now they had a film of a giant squid going after some bait attached to a camera underwater, and Arcetoothus (I think that's how you spell the genus name) larva have been kept in captivity before (very, VERY temporarily, but genetic testing confirmed that they were giant squid larva and they were alive). It's been a long time since anyone doubted that they were real.

I'm not saying this isn't cool--the more we learn about these giants the better. Because frankly, giant killing machines are awesome. :D
 
I found one link:

CTV News

Apologies if you have to wait through a commercial.


Edit: Yaffle's link is better. Use it.
 
Apologies for not including a link! What can I say, I was too excited to remember it.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2013/01/08/exp-early-ellis-giant-squid.cnn

The interviewee is Richard Ellis, who has written several books on the scientific basis (or non-basis) of various sea monsters. I have read them, and they're worth your time. Man, I was so geeked out by him being the guest that it was like a double-win for me.


Also, the still photos at depth we had (and the brief video of a hooked, dying Architeuthis dux) were also Dr Kubocera. Because the man apparently knows how squid think!
 
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Wow. I remember a science picture book---this must have been when I was 8 or 10---whose big spread on the "deep sea" had an illustration of a sperm whale eating a giant squid, and the true-until-now "No one has seen a giant squid in the wild" factoid.

Amazing to see it accomplished. Really amazing.
 
Neat!

However, it bears mentioning this animal is quite obviously not a "kraken", nor can it have inspired the stories of that legendary creature.
 
From Wiki:
On 30 September 2004, researchers from the National Science Museum of Japan and the Ogasawara Whale Watching Association took the first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat.[2] Several of the 556 photographs were released a year later. The same team successfully filmed a live adult giant squid for the first time on 4 December 2006.[3]
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Perhaps some 'splainin' is in order.
 
Checkmite said:
Neat!

However, it bears mentioning this animal is quite obviously not a "kraken", nor can it have inspired the stories of that legendary creature.
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Why not?

Because it's unlikely that people would have interacted with it? Or for some other reason?
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
From Wiki:

Perhaps some 'splainin' is in order.
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I think it is explained further on in that article.

The first video (2001) was of some captured larvae.

The second video (Nov 2006) is controversial, the photographer claimed there were factual and scientific errors in a documentary, concerning the video.

The third video was of a squid captured with bait but died in the process.

This video appears to be the first showing Archie in its natural habitat.
 
You wouldn't want to eat architeuthis. It has a strong ammonia flavour.
 
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