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| Live giant squid caught on camera | |
| 2005-09-28 | |
 A live, adult giant squid has been caught on camera in the wild for the very first time. Japanese researchers took pictures of the elusive creature hunting 900m down, enveloping its prey by coiling its tentacles into a ball. The images show giant squid, known as Architeuthis, are more vigorous hunters than has been supposed. The images, captured in the Pacific Ocean, appear in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
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| Posted by:Steve |
| #13 On the page under images of giant sea squid there is a " Video" button. I meant that the "video" is a video full of pictures. I wanna see the squiddly diddly on tape - moving. Not frame grabs. :) |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-09-28 23:02 |
| #12 Oh and Fred, I once caught my brother fishing for Bluefish with fresh Squid. Sheesh! Pearls before swine, or something like that. |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2005-09-28 18:44 |
| #11 That two-frame 'video' of the "Feirce Predator From The Depths Of Our Oceans" kinda reminds me of something else. |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2005-09-28 18:42 |
| #10 Wotta weird world, when the bait tastes better than some of the fish you catch with it... |
| Posted by: Fred 2005-09-28 15:54 |
| #9 Sorry, I don't eat bait. Squid was a favorite bait on the fishing trips I used to take out of Destin, Florida. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2005-09-28 15:11 |
| #8 When it comes to Architeuthis, the calamari eat you A Sea and Architeuthis calamari! /yummy |
| Posted by: Squid 2005-09-28 14:16 |
| #7 Off to get some yummy calamari... When it comes to Architeuthis, the calamari eat you |
| Posted by: Steve 2005-09-28 12:46 |
| #6 Lunchtime! Off to get some yummy calamari... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-09-28 12:29 |
| #5 On the page under images of giant sea squid there is a " Video" button. (I tried pasting a direct link but I think it would srew up the page and I am not HTML savy enough to correct that) |
| Posted by: Evert V. in NL 2005-09-28 12:28 |
| #4 Hope there is somewhat more convincing video available though.. Video? I didn't see any "video".... |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-09-28 12:04 |
| #3 Very cool! Hope there is somewhat more convincing video available though (Whome am I kidding, I just want to see more video of the thing) |
| Posted by: Evert V. in NL 2005-09-28 10:26 |
| #2 I remember when this thing attacked the Seaview and they had to electrocute it... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-09-28 10:01 |
| #1 Here's an alternate method via Joel at The Stupid Shall be Punished. "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." |
| Posted by: Chuper Whegum3442 2005-09-28 09:53 |