Tuesday, September 27, 2005

First Ever Giant Squid Images

Japanese scientists have taken the first images ever of a live giant squid (Architeuthis dux). The squid attacked a baited camera trap at a depth of 900 meters. Despite numerous stranded or netted specimens and centuries of sailors' tales, the animal has never been captured on film or video.until now. Indeed, some experts hold that no direct sighting of a healthy (as opposed to injured or stranded) live individual has ever been verfified. The giant squid, known to reach over 17 meters in length and alleged to grow much larger, is a creature so bizarre it might seem more at home in the seas of another planet.

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