Japanese scientists have captured footage of a live giant squid, by sinking a camera with a bag of bait and a depth-activated switch to 900 metres. They were rewarded with four hours of pictures of the giant squid, and a severed tentacle. (ouch.) National Geographic also has a giant squid photo gallery up online, which features photos of the live squid.
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This is awsome! I love giant squid, and it's so neat to be able to see footage of a live one, instead of the pictures of dead ones that have washed up on beaches. I am kind of pissed that they injured it taking their pictures, though. Will it be able to survive without the tentacle, or grow it back at some point?
Awesome, isn't it? The dead ones which have washed up have been larger, and certainly impressive… but the smaller giant squid alive beats that. The tentacle worried me too, as did the fact that the hours of pictures were in fact of the squid trying to free itself from the hook. I hope it will be able to survive, although I don't think squids can grow back severed tentacles.
I could be wrong, but I think I've heard stuff about squid being fairly resilient. It may well be able to survive without the tentacle.
Especially cool is that the same day some scientists found the first complete specimen of a colossal squid (think — even bigger). It was a good squid day, really. 🙂
And it was one of the important, grabby tentacles too!
ack, poor squid!
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