GIANT SQUID FINALLY CAPTURED ON CAMERA!

http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/proc_bio_content/pdf/RSPB20053158.pdf

Giant squid shows off for cameras, then leaves behind souvenir

Because that's what happened, not 'Giant squid gets captured on hook and has tentacle ripped off.' (This said, yeah, pretty great story all told!)

(that was the first 'grownup' novel i ever read all the way through, at age 9).

Also: Gummi Giant Squid.

And 50 of my closest friends.

so is it - human sized "body" (6 ft long) w/ 20 foot tentacles?

or is it a 26 foot long squid that measures 46 feet from tip to tip?

well, formerly healthy...

Yeah, but if you click on the "video" link in the article and watch the video you'll see it's just a series of still photos.

PETA to thread!

I've loved those big slimy calamari since I was a kid, now I get to see one ATTACK!!

OCTOPUS MAXIMUS: My wish comes true at last, this day of days; finally Ihave you in my grasp! Your "bobo" is ripe and full, how wonderful! Superiorto all others! To suck and suck and suck some more. After we do otmasterfully, I'll guide yo to the Dragon Palace of the Sea God and envelopeyou. "Zuu sufu sufu chyu chyu chyu tsu zuu fufufuuu..."

MAIDEN: You hateful octopus! Your sucking at the mouth of my womb makes megasp for breath! Aah! yes... it's... There.!!! With the sucker, thesucker!! inside, squiggle, squiggle, Oooh! Oooh, good, Oooh good! There,there! Theeeeere! Goood! Whew! Aah! Good, good, Aaaaaaaaaah! Not yet!Until now it was I that men called an octopus! An octopus! Ooh! Whew! Howare you able...!? Ooh! "yoyoyooh, Saa... Hicha hicha gucha gucha, yuchyuuchyu guzu guzu suu suuu...."

OCTOPUS MAXIMUS: All eigth legs (arms?) to interwine with!! How do you likeit htis way? Ah, look! The inside has swollen, moistened by the warm watersof lust. "Nura nura doku doku doku..."

MAIDEN: Yes, it tingles now; soon there will be no sensation at all left myhips. Ooooooh! Boundaries and borders gone! I 've Vanished....!!!!!!

OCTOPUS MINIMUM: After daddy finishes, I too want to rub and rub my suckersat the ridge of your furry place until you dissapear and then I'll sucksome more, "chyu chyu.."

You're saying Giant Squiddy is a sell out, Banana?

giant squid though = still good.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20897

O'Shea said it would make calamari rings the size of tractor tires if cut up"

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/29/asia/AS-GEN-New-Zealand-Colossal-Squid.php

"O'Shea has previously described the colossal squid, which has razor-sharp swivelling hooks at the end of its tentacles, as "a nasty aggressive sort of squid... a gelatinous blob with seriously evil arms on it."

If the new specimen was cut into squid rings, they would be size of tractor tyres, although they would taste like ammonia.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hFm14m9RwvD98Wpi_EcgK9zruU_g

Suggestions such as using a giant microwave to unfreeze it were discarded, and on Monday the squid was placed in a tank filled with cold salty water to ensure it defrosts slowly without decomposing.

"Hey doc, how about like, a big fuckin microwave!"
"..."

jhoshea has said he will eat calamari rings the size of tractor tires if they are served with a lemon wedge

giant squid

colossal squid

squidzilla

Oh what big eyes you have

i can only imagine the smell in that room!

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/88/imageuploadimageud2.jpg

^^^ actual squid

false colour

no seriously what is that

poor squid

Drexel University doctoral student Jessica Schiffman won an honorable mention in photography in the 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge for capturing what's actually an array of suckers found on the tentacles of a long-finned squid.

Each sucker--about 400 micrometers wide, or a little smaller than the width of a human hair--is surrounded with "fangs" of chitin, a hard organic material.

Squid use their powerful suckers to secure unwitting prey and feed their robust appetites--much like the horror-movie plant that inspired the image's color scheme.

Description doesn't really make sense 'cause squid suckers are obviously a lot bigger than 400 micrometers.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/kenjuggle/wallo.jpg

What ledgey said.

lol ken

even more squid captured on camera http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57562424/giant-squid-filmed-alive-in-deep-sea-for-first-time/

it seems

Yeah, from what I understand, in 2004 the first photographs of a live giant squid in its natural habitat were taken. Then, in 2006, scientists for the first time took video footage of a live giant squid as it was captured. This latest development is the first video of one undisturbed in the ocean.

A pretty good documentary about this is making the rounds. Worth it alone for the scene when the Japanese scientist who's been studying this for 40 years finally sees one.

Just watched it, incredible stuff. Moving and humbling. Also chilling, that staring blue eye! Japanese Squid Doctor may currently be my favourite human being.

just reached the chapter in moby dick called "the sq

try again:

just reached the chapter in moby dick called "the squid" -- it reads like a strange dream, of course, not least because the pequod has been following a ghostly apparition of silvery spray for several nights before this, and bcz daggoo at mast top sees the squid and wrongly announces it as being moby dick… it comes in the same section as several chapters mocking established science (cuvier, scoresby etc) for not really knowing much about whales, compared to what whalers know. and it announces that sperm whales feast in giant squid and we know this because of the scars they bear, of battles in the depths with giant squid and the sharp hooks they have instead of suckers, on their tentacles, as well as beaks and tentacles found in sperm whale stomachs

^^^all this now folded into actual real ocean-research science

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