Giant Squid Spotted!!

[The Shredder]

there was one, it sucked ass

Oh I know.

Thats why I said big screen adaptation.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

That's pretty cool, it's not like they had to prove it existed.
We've been finding their bodies for quite some time, and sperm whales eat them as their primary diet.

They can put a hurtin on the whale too though. Not an easy meal for ol' Mody Dick.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Easy there killer.

 

[AndThePickles]

OMFG,you piss me off so much. 24 feet is not very normal for a squid.

Also...they're not seen all the time. You stupid,stupid b****. I hate you.

*EDIT* It's JUDGING. You jackass.

*sings* Where is the love?

 

[OverMyHead]

Dark Knight is a troll, butt-salad. Don't worry.

Don't get sucked in.

 

[Yurka]

lol, butt salad. i love it

 

[Hades]

my say s way of on runs not fun what confeess

 

[Yurka]

thats what i thought

 

[bored]

Researchers catch giant squid

POSTED: 9:58 a.m. EST, December 22, 2006


var clickExpire = "01/21/2007";TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- A Japanese research team has succeeded in filming a giant squid live -- possibly for the first time -- and says the elusive creatures may be more plentiful than previously believed, a researcher said Friday.
The research team, led by Tsunemi Kubodera, videotaped the giant squid at the surface as they captured it off the Ogasawara Islands south of Tokyo earlier this month. The squid, which measured about 24-feet long, died while it was being caught.
"We believe this is the first time anyone has successfully filmed a giant squid that was alive," said Kubodera, a researcher with Japan's National Science Museum. "Now that we know where to find them, we think we can be more successful at studying them in the future." (Watch researchers pull in giant squid )
Giant squid, formally called Architeuthis, are the world's largest invertebrates. Because they live in the depths of the ocean, they have long been wrapped in mystery and embellished in the folklore of sea monsters, appearing in ancient Greek myths or attacking the submarine in Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."
The captured squid was caught using a smaller type of squid as bait, and was pulled into a research vessel "after putting up quite a fight," Kubodera said.
"It took two people to pull it in, and they lost it once, which might have caused the injuries that killed it," he said.
The squid, a female, was not fully grown and was relatively small by giant squid standards. The longest one on record is 60 feet, he said.
Kubodera and his team had been conducting expeditions in the area for about three years before they succeeded in making their first contact two years ago. Last year, the team succeeded in taking a series of still photos of one of the animals in its natural habitat -- also believed to have been a first.
Until the team's successes, most scientific study of the creatures had to rely on partial specimens that had washed ashore dead or dying or had been found in the digestive systems of whales or very large sharks.
Kubodera said whales led his team to the squid. By finding an area where whales fed, he believed he could find the animals. He also said that, judging by the number of whales that feed on them, there may be many more giant squid than previously thought.
"Sperm whales need from 500 to 1,000 kilograms (1,100-2,200 pounds) of food every day," he said. "There are believed to be 200,000 or so of them, and that would suggest there are quite a few squid for them to be feeding on. I don't think they are in danger of extinction at all."

A giant squid attacking a bait squid is pulled up by a research team off the Ogasawara Islands, south of Tokyo, on December 4.

Wait, did they not get footage of a live one about a year ago, as well?

 

[OverMyHead]

Pictures, not footage.

 

[Fading]

Well it was more like stop motion footage lol. I remember seeing that on the Discovery channel, was like a picture taken every 10 seconds or so, so just like 20-30 seconds of choppy low framerate footage of a Giant Squid chasing their boat surrounded by bubbles.

One thing that's always got me is they were considered as myth by science, yet in the past few years since we found the first body we've been seeing them like crazy. I wonder if it means A.) Something is happening to their habitat at the deepest part of the oceans making them go closer to the surface, or B.) less sperm whales to feed on them meaning a population explosion. When you think about it sailors used to talk about them when they first started hunting whales in mass, then we put bans on whale hunting, so maybe with lower numbers of whales it was long enough for them to get their numbers up a bit.

Either way 24 ft. is huge lol. Large enough to scar up a whale, and pull a human underwater with ease. Heck humbolt (sp?) squid can pull a diver down and their like 6ft or so long.