Live Giant Squid photographed. (1 Viewer)

[JeremySt]

Hopefully this hasnt been posted yet...

Check out National Geographic's site here

 

[Dome Vongvises]

Ah shit. And here I was thinking I'd be the first kid on my block to post the thread.

I'm always fascinated by stuff like this.

 

[Kirk Gunn]

Amazing stuff - but why the delay in announcing ? This was done in 2004, and I still haven't seen the full video posted or shown anywhere. Doesn't make sense that a development of this magnitude was essentially "quashed"... my conspiracy senses are in overdrive...

 

[Joe D]

I also read that. This is a huge discovery of one of the most elusive creatures in the world.

I also wonder about the 2004 date though.

 

[BrianB]

They finished their research, they wrote a paper, they waited for it to get reviewed, it got published. They followed the "normal" route for publishing research instead of just announcing it.

 

[Kirk Gunn]

Hmmm... seems to miss the hysteria we consistenly associate with big news. Not sure I like these kind of "normal" folk.

Hopefully the video will be available soon !

 

[Holadem]

Where JulieK at?

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[Steve Y]

That's just plain cool. I think after seeing "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" it made me a little terrified of giant squids.

 

[Danny Tse]

Terrified? Check out the last paragraph of the below article on BBC....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4288772.stm

 

[Max Leung]

Awesome! I guess the Japanese scientists were really hungry - too bad they didn't catch it - it would have fed the entire crew!

 

[Dome Vongvises]

I was thinking the same thing until I heard that giant/colossal squid meat is supposedly high in ammonia that it would be like eating Solid Windex.

 

[Kevin M]

Well they did apparently get a chunk of one of it's tentacles.....mmmmm, ammonia n' garlic-butter......that's good eatin.




........and what image doesn't among shuttered in squid experts?

 

[Jay Taylor]

What ever happened to the good old days when giant squids came to the surface & dragged sailing ships down?

Oh wait... maybe those were Giant Octopus... uhhh Octopi... uhhh Octopussies.

 

[TonyD]