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by The Giant squid, formerly known as Architeuthis, has been caught on tape for the first time ever. A Japanese research team succeeded in capturing and filming the elusive world's largest invertebrate off the Ogasawara Islands south of Tokyo, although it later died. The same team was able to obtain still photos of a giant squid in 2004, before which scientists 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."
Sperm whales, who need 1,100-2,200 pounds of food every day, led the team to the squid. Judging by the number of whales feeding on them, there may be many more giant squid than previously thought.
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Squid by Eye.Of.Sage :: NR6 :: on 26 December 2006
Nah...they didn't catch the real one, otherwise my sister-in-law would be dead.
I thought the existence of giant squid had been established a long time ago. There was an episode of National Geographic on that.
RE: Squid by Bortnyk :: NR6 :: on 28 December 2006
I don't think the one they pulled in the video is the same one that attacked the Nautilus.
RE: Squid by Eye.Of.Sage :: NR6 :: on 28 December 2006
Where is PETA??? I mean they hauled a gigantic squid out of the sea and indirectly killed it. I ask again, where is PETA when you need it?
PETA by VnutZ :: NR8 :: on 28 December 2006
I ask again, where is PETA when you need it?
I don't think squids qualify for PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals).
RE: PETA by Eye.Of.Sage :: NR6 :: on 28 December 2006
The Japanese eat live squids.....only not that big....unless it's Godzilla eating it.
RE: Squid by Anonymous :: NR0 :: on 28 December 2006
No, probably not. But it does show that giant squids are multiplying and looking for food closer to the surface. I feel safe in saying that we only have a few years left before immense giant squid, created by their exposure to seaborne toxic waste, start lurking on the major trade routes. These squid will be enormous and will pull even huge freightliners down, at which time they will devour the poor crewmen with their radioactive beaks. Thousands will die and international trade will basicallly stop causing the greatest depression the world has ever seen. People will be become indigent and there will probably be some famines. Yep, it's going to be brutal....and inevitable. But go ahead and laugh at this "little" squid.
RE: Squid by Eye.Of.Sage :: NR6 :: on 28 December 2006
I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic or not.....but the giant squids are dying.
RE: Squid by Anonymous :: NR0 :: on 28 December 2006
That's what they want you to think! Haven't you ever wondered why giant squids appeared so prominently in old maps, but then disappeared? They knew man had made some pretty hefty technological advances, so they took to lying low. They also thought that we might all kill ourselves with war, but that hasn't happened. But now the squid have discovered that they can gain massive size with the help of nuclear waste. If you're right and Japan has been eating giant squid for years, you can expect the first attacks to happen there.
Even if the squid hunt us to extinction and ruin this ecosystem, I've been doing some research and determined that the nuclear mutations will eventually allow the squid to nuclear-powered tentacles to harness solar flares, which will allow them to throw themselves into space and seek out new worlds to dominate. In summation, if the giant horrible evil nuclear squids are dying, they're taking us with them.
Thank you and goodnight.
Filthy Squid by VnutZ :: NR8 :: on 28 December 2006
A-HA! So it's really the new, surging giant squid population that is responsible for the end of all aquatic life as we know it. Everyone is always so quick to blame humans ...
RE: Filthy Squid by Anonymous :: NR0 :: on 28 December 2006
More giant squid=Less fish=more squid sushi=more money for me.