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#1 2005-09-28 7:27 pm
Live Architeuthis Photos (Giant Squid)
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.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/0 … index.html
Cool stuff. There's a video too.
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#2 2005-09-28 7:34 pm
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That's cool... I thought I saw a picture of a giant squid a while back, but this is still cool...
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#3 2005-09-28 7:41 pm
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I saw this on the news this morning. They said the tentacle that broke off and came on board was still moving around trying to grab stuff.
It's weird, i didn't know i'd never even seen a squid, or even a picture of one, until i saw this.
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#4 2005-09-28 7:46 pm
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That's a lot of calamari...
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#5 2005-09-28 8:10 pm
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#6 2005-09-28 9:26 pm
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Re: Live Architeuthis Photos (Giant Squid)
Egress wrote:
That's a lot of calamari...
My first thought as well! I bet I could eat a whole tentacle.
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#7 2005-09-28 9:34 pm
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Good post!! I am sending this to friends as we posst.
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#8 2005-09-28 10:07 pm
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pottymouth wrote:
Egress wrote:
That's a lot of calamari...
My first thought as well! I bet I could eat a whole tentacle.
That makes 3 lol
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#9 2005-09-28 10:07 pm
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pottymouth wrote:
Egress wrote:
That's a lot of calamari...
My first thought as well! I bet I could eat a whole tentacle.
It shed six meters of tentacle as if it was nothing when it got stuck to the bait. Six Meters.
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#10 2005-09-28 10:31 pm
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Starfish, octopi, etc etc. Lizards for land based. No matter how long, it detatched from one loction. Its not like it was pulled out lik and intestine.
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#11 2005-09-28 10:34 pm
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Starfish, octopi, etc etc. Lizards for land based. No matter how long, it detatched from one loction. Its not like it was pulled out lik and intestine.
That's not what I mean. He's got to be one hungry dude if he's going to eat his way through over six meters of tentacle. 
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#13 2005-09-28 11:44 pm
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This is actually a giant discovery. No pun intended.
I can only express puzzlement, which borders on alarm.
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#14 2005-09-29 12:02 am
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I'd pay top dollar to eat that thing.
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#15 2005-09-29 12:12 am
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I wouldn't. I imagine it would be full of this
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#16 2005-09-29 12:17 am
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I can't get the video to work.
I can only express puzzlement, which borders on alarm.
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#17 2005-09-29 1:32 am
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Now to somehow get Nasubi mixed up in this...
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#18 2005-09-29 2:41 am
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This is the first time that they have found a giant squid in its natural environment, whole and healthy... So they ripped off one of its tentacles!
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#19 2005-09-29 5:10 am
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Now if one tentacle is close to 20 feet in length then when it stretches out it's tentacles in opposite directions plus the body width we are talking 45 feet of animal!!!!!!
If the tentacles are closer to the 8 meter length (when still attached to the creature) then it would be closer to 55+ feet from tentacle tip to tentacle tip. Imagine swimming into that! In the dark 
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#20 2005-09-29 9:07 am
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Teh scientist mentioned how astounded they were at how fast it moved. Previously it was thought that they just sort of chilled out in the water, and were sort of sluggish, but this thing moved incredibly quick.
When you think about it, its incredibly difficult to get a good look at a live giant squid. There's no way you could capture one to study it. They took these pictures 900m deep, where it is basically black. It's going to be friggin hard to get a good extended look at this animal without shootin it.
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#21 2005-09-29 10:37 am
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Light Speed wrote:
Now if one tentacle is close to 20 feet in length then when it stretches out it's tentacles in opposite directions plus the body width we are talking 45 feet of animal!!!!!!
If the tentacles are closer to the 8 meter length (when still attached to the creature) then it would be closer to 55+ feet from tentacle tip to tentacle tip. Imagine swimming into that! In the dark
I was under the impression the entire creature was 25' long, including tentacles. 
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#22 2005-09-29 12:35 pm
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TheConfuzed1 wrote:
This is the first time that they have found a giant squid in its natural environment, whole and healthy... So they ripped off one of its tentacles!
I'm pretty sure that some Russians saw a Architeuthis (or whatever) in conflict with a whale. Both we're quite whole and healthy at the start...
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#23 2005-09-29 12:50 pm
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Whales love to eat them.
They have found their beaks in the bellies of harvested sperm whales.
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#24 2005-09-29 1:04 pm
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That video was pretty cool. The lead scientist said he could feel the tentacle sucking at his finger. What a weird sensation that must have been.
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#25 2005-09-29 1:55 pm
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justine wrote:
Light Speed wrote:
Now if one tentacle is close to 20 feet in length then when it stretches out it's tentacles in opposite directions plus the body width we are talking 45 feet of animal!!!!!!
If the tentacles are closer to the 8 meter length (when still attached to the creature) then it would be closer to 55+ feet from tentacle tip to tentacle tip. Imagine swimming into that! In the darkI was under the impression the entire creature was 25' long, including tentacles.
It left a 6 meter length of tentacle on the bait line. That tentacle probably didn't separate at the body. Even if it did then the smallest the animal would measure if it extended it's tentacles out to each side would be tentacle + body width + tentacle or something like 18'+3'+18'=39' which is still huge.
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