Did Scientists Finally Capture Giant Squid on Film?

[Mk]

Live Architeuthis photographed!

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050928/ap_on_sc/japan_giant_squid
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1470054.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050927/sc_afp/scienceanimalssquid

The giant squid can be found in books and in myths, but for the first time, a team of Japanese scientists has captured on film one of the most mysterious creatures of the deep-sea in its natural habitat.

The team led by Tsunemi Kubodera, from the National Science Museum in Tokyo, tracked the 26-foot long Architeuthis as it attacked prey nearly 3,000 feet deep off the coast of Japan's Bonin islands.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Awesome, I've always been interested in the giant squid!

Here is a link with a different photo:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8064

 

[matthyaouw]

Impressive! I love cephalopods!

 

[Poncho]

In 2003, New Zealand marine biologists laid a sex trap.

They ground up some squid gonads, believing that the scent would drive male giant squids wild as the creatures migrated through New Zealand waters.

The hope was that a camera would squirt out the pureed genitals and a passing squid, driven into a sexual frenzy, would then mate with the lens -- a project that, some may be relieved to hear, never came to fruition.

Wow! Maybe I should be a marine biologist instead of a physicist.

 

[matthyaouw]

I was talking to my brother today, and he said to me:
"Did you hear that they almost caught this 20m octupus that's been sinking ships in japan? A fisherman got its tentacle, but it got away."

 

[pattylou]

THis is so cool, and I haven't even visited the links yet. thank you!

 

[Moonbear]

Oh, ow, the poor thing left a tentacle behind. Thanks for sharing the story! That's pretty cool that they finally saw one live and it behaves quite differently from what was expected.

 

[Orion1]

The team led by Tsunemi Kubodera, from the National Science Museum in Tokyo, tracked the 26-foot long Architeuthis as it attacked prey nearly 3,000 feet deep off the coast of Japan's Bonin islands.

Reference:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2005-09/19699074.jpg