Red Mosquito • View topic - Live giant squid caught by Japanese researchers.

bart d. · **Joined:** Fri Jun 03, 2005 1:32 am **Posts:** 17563

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/12 ... index.html

It sucks that the thing died, but man is it fantastic to see one of these suckers alive on video. Apperently they may be much more common than previously thought.

conoalias · **Joined:** Fri Sep 02, 2005 5:20 am **Posts:** 31173

awesome! I remember watching this documentary earlier this year with this i wanna say Australian? guy whom IS OBSESSED with these animals.

was very intriguing.

edit: it really sucks that probably killed her though, sure it is cool to see one alive finally, but it's not worth it if you kill it in the meantime.

loralei · **Joined:** Mon Oct 18, 2004 2:32 pm **Posts:** 4054

hmm I had no idea they had so little research on them

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Until the team's successes, most scientific study of the creatures had to rely on partial specimens that had washed ashore dead or dying or had been found in the digestive systems of whales or very large sharks.

Skitch Patterson · **Posted:** Tue Dec 26, 2006 11:32 pm

Giant Squid specials make up about 82% of the programming on Discovery HD.

Orpheus · **Posted:** Wed Dec 27, 2006 12:30 am

Does that video look really funny to anyone else? Maybe my depth perception is off, but it doesn't look all that giant in the video.

Live giant squid caught by Japanese researchers.

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