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First-ever observations of a live giant squid in the wild

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By Tsunemi Kubodera, Kyoichi Mori, De Baets K, Le Jean M
| royalsocietypublishing.org
Abstract The giant squid, Architeuthis, is renowned as the largest invertebrate in the world and has featured as an ominous sea monster in novels and movies. Considerable efforts to view this elusive creature in its deep-sea habitat have been singularly unsuccessful. Our digital camera and depth recorder system recently photographed an Architeuthis attacking bait at 900 m off Ogasawara Islands in the North Pacific. Here, we show the first wild images of a giant squid in its natural environment.
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