I’m not crediting this to anyone, because it seems that everyone but me has already mentioned it. (UPDATE: Metro whined, so he gets credit. But Archie is nicer) But I heard about it straight from the Squid, so there nyeah.
Some 1,000 kilometres south of Tokyo, a giant sea creature lurks beneath the ocean surface.
Japanese scientists at the National Science Museum of Japan caught this big reddish animal on film, during research on habitats in the deep sea.
The three-and-a-halfmetre long squid is still a baby by giant squid standards.
It’s been captured some 650 meters under the water.
[Tsunemi Kunodera, Chief Researcherg]: “Nobody – except for fishermen – had ever seen live giant squids. We believe this is the first time a live giant squid was captured on video.”
This legendary animal hasn’t ever survived capture. Samples are pickled in a container for further research.
Dwelling in the deep seas, these monster squids are believed to grow to a tremendous size… with unconfirmed reports of some up to 20 meters long.
Japanese Scientists are also the first in the world to take still pictures of the squid in its natural environment during 2005.
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To quote some mad commentor: You’ll be hearing from my lawyer. As someone also said “… crediting source, good thing to do …”
And don’t try that “I got it straight from the squid’s mouth” business–squid lack vocal cords (as someone somewhere had a grant to find out).
But they HAVE mouths, you fool! Or didn’t you see the end of POTC2?
I saw it on your site, Archie’s, BoingBoing and Pharyngula if memory serves, and gawd only knows who had the first post. Just cuz you snivelled, and I like to encourage that, I’ll give it to you.
But I so totally had the video before you did.
Oooo…I saw this on a science site and I just knew you’d grab it with those cybertentacles.
If only this computer had Flash installed and a better than dialup connection and I could not only grab this, but watch it, too!
Cyber-nomading sux, btw.
Interesting you should say that. I’m just posting about POTC 2.0.
Great Squid, no plot. Orly and Jonny still purty. That about sums it up.
I really should get to work on my idea for POTSP…it’s a doozy.
Paranoiacs on the Squid Patrol? You’re crayoning your autobiography?
Pirates of the South Pacific. Specifically, the Spice Islands of Indonesia, where I learned quite a few awesome root-material-type stories. And where I wouldn’t mind going again for a “supervising filming and being on-hand for script doctoring” vacation, if only they would stop shooting people there. Any day now…