A large
giant squid has been filmed and captured for the first time off the coast of Japan. Earlier this year a squid was captured in still photos underwater at a bait-trap, but this is the first known live video of these whale killers.
Tsunemi Kubodera, a scientist with Japan's National Science Museum, caught the 24-foot (7-meter) animal earlier this month near the island of Chichijima, some 600 miles (960 kilometers) southeast of Tokyo (see Japan map).
His team snared the animal using a line baited with small squid and shot video of the russet-colored giant as it was hauled to the surface.
The squid, a young female, "put up quite a fight" as the team attempted to bring it aboard, Kudobera told the Associated Press, and the animal died from injuries sustained during the capture.
Giant squid, the world's largest invertebrates, are thought to reach sizes up to 60 feet (18 meters), but because they live at such great ocean depths they have never been studied in the wild.
I haven't seen the video yet, but when it pops up I will link to it.
A large giant squid has been filmed and captured for the first time off the coast of Japan. Earlier this year a squid was captured in still photos underwater at a bait-trap, but this is the first known live video of these whale killers.
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