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Iron's Rite · **Giant Squid photographed. -** 09-30-05

Finally. So when can we train them and keep them as attack-dogs?

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Scientists photograph giant squid

Wednesday, September 28, 2005; Posted: 9:27 a.m. EDT (13:27 GMT)

The 8-meter long Architeuthis attacks prey hung by a rope.
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Scientists photograph for the first time in the wild a 26-foot long squid.

Japan
Science and Technology
TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Japanese scientists have photographed for the first time in the wild a live giant squid, one of the most mysterious creatures of the deep sea.

The team, led by Tsunemi Kubodera from the National Science Museum in Tokyo, tracked the 8-meter (25-foot) long Architeuthis as it attacked prey at 900 meters deep off the coast of Japan's Bonin islands.

"We believe this is the first time a grown giant squid has been captured on camera in its natural habitat," said Kyoichi Mori, a marine researcher who co-authored a piece on the finding in the Royal Society Journal, a leading British biological publication.

The camera was operated by remote control during research at the end of October 2004, Mori told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Mori said the squid, which was purplish red like smaller squid, attacked its quarry aggressively, calling into question the image of the animal as lethargic and slow moving.

"Contrary to belief that the giant squid is relatively inactive, the squid we captured on film actively used its enormous tentacles to go after prey," Mori said.

"It went after some bait that we had on the end of the camera and became stuck, and left behind a tentacle six meters long, " Mori said.

Kubodera, also reached by the AP, said researchers ran DNA tests on the tentacle and found it matched those of other giant squids found around Japan.

`'But other sightings were of smaller, or very injured squids washed toward the shore -- or of parts of a giant squid," Kubodera said. "This is the first time a full-grown, healthy squid has been sighted in its natural environment in deep water."

Giant squids have long attracted human fascination and were written about and mythologized by the ancient Greeks.

Scientific interest in the animals has surged in recent years as more specimens have been caught in commercial fishing nets.

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapc...apan.squid.ap/

Wicked Lady · 09-30-05

Holy shit. How good you would be on a bowl lined with lettuce, a little lemon... a little hot sauce.

errantrogue · 09-30-05

make that a really BIG bowl... and a shitload of lettuce and lemons...

Wicked Lady · 09-30-05

Marinara's good, too. Oh sweet christ. I'm starving.

Errantrogue, wanna take me to dinner? I'll let you feel me up afterwards.

errantrogue · 09-30-05

actually, calamari freaks me out.

Wicked Lady · 09-30-05

How very Samuel L. of you.

errantrogue · 09-30-05

I finished the book though... the comic book.

Wicked Lady · 09-30-05

Had trouble sounding out the big words, eh? It's okay. Come sit on Auntie Meg's lap... I'll make it all better.

errantrogue · 09-30-05

naw... the book bored me (when i read the first half of it in second grade)... though women's laps are always better (though, to be honest, i prefer it when they are sitting on mine).

still, finding a live one is pretty cool... kinda weird that it got stuck and lost a tentacle, though... do they grow back?

Wicked Lady · 09-30-05

I'm sorry. I thought that said TESTICLE.

Hey. I'd totally sit on your lap. But you hate me. *sob*

Panthera66 · 09-30-05

ah- but because its so large it may not have that same good flavor.

harli · 09-30-05

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Originally Posted by Panthera66

ah- but because its so large it may not have that same good flavor.

that is a very good point. i know bigger lobsters tend to be toughter and less sweet than smaller ones.

Iron's Rite · 09-30-05

This just in: Architeuthis is now classed as an endangered species due to over-fishing . . .

Quiet..... · 10-02-05

squids listen to underwater techno music.

sixxx(sic)six · 10-02-05

mmm mmm mmm....i love calamari

Meena · 10-10-05

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Originally Posted by Wicked Lady

Holy shit. How good you would be on a bowl lined with lettuce, a little lemon... a little hot sauce.

LMAO...Yumm

Mia~ow · 10-10-05

Ewww, you people make me sick! not because you're talking about potentially eating an endangered species, but because I just can't fathom why you would want to put something that looks like that in your mouth.

Meena · 10-10-05

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Originally Posted by Mia~ow

Ewww, you people make me sick! not because you're talking about potentially eating an endangered species, but because I just can't fathom why you would want to put something that looks like that in your mouth.

You know what they say; don't knock it until you try!!!

Qoji · 10-11-05

Quiet..... · 10-11-05

'Qoji' would be such a good name for a giant squid. Don't you people agree?