Giant squid : new discoveries made!
By Catkin
@Catkin (480)
United States
January 15, 2007 8:05pm CST
Has anyone else been following the recent news regarding giant squid? One has finally been captured on film while it attempted to take the bait from a line laid out for the specific purpose of attracting a giant squid. It somehow got one tentacle stuck on the hook holding the bait, and after battling with it for several hours, escaped, leaving the tentaacle behind. This tentacle was about 20ft long, leading researches to estimate the individual it belonged to at around 32ft. The really bizarre thing was that the tentacle was moving around on its own when they hauled it up! I saw footage of it a few days ago on a Discovery channel program. If you want to learn more, and see some of the photos, visit bbc.co.uk and search for "giant squid".
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@MrNiceGuy (4139)
• United States
16 Jan 07
I did see that. I think its really interesting. I was surprised there had been no film of them before.
Although when I heard "giant squid" I was thinking a beast like 50 ft long, not just a really big squid. I guess thats because of the movies and cartoons.
@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
16 Jan 07
The episode on the Discovery channel you are reffering to aried over the summer originally, but there has been even more recent news than that. In December some Japanese scietist caught an alive giant squid, but injured it while pulling it up onto their boat. The injuries killed the squid :o(
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/12/22/giant.squid.ap/index.html
@lonewolfnan (4366)
• Canada
16 Jan 07
I have seen the pictures of the giant squid on National Geographic website and they are AMAZING!I enjoy keeping up with the latest in discoveries.I want to also see what is at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.We know so little about the oceans which cover 3/4 of our surface.
@Catkin (480)
• United States
16 Jan 07
I know...we really should be spending more time exploring our own planet than wandering about in space (not that I don't find the discoveries made in space fascinating...they're just a bit hard to realyl grasp). There's so much living down in the deepest parts of the oceans that we will probably never seen. But then, maybe that's a good thing...other species seem to survive better when humans don't know they exist.
