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Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: December 22, 2006 8:14 AM, by PZ Myers
We have a sign: there are reports of a new video from Tsunemi Kubodera of an Architeuthis—unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a copy of the video online anywhere yet. If anyone finds it, let me know!
There's a small and rather grainy copy of the video on the BBC website!
The copy at CNN is of much higher quality.
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I don't know if this is it, giant squid caught on a line and lost part of a tentacle?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9503272/
Posted by: seaducer | December 22, 2006 8:29 AM
Nah, that's the old one, from 2004. The same guy has announced just this week that he's got another of a smallish female on the surface.
Posted by: PZ Myers | December 22, 2006 8:35 AM
The Eye in the Sea recently filmed a squid they describe as:
The very first time this lure was used it attracted a large squid that is so new to science it can not be placed in any known family
Posted by: The Science Pundit | December 22, 2006 8:41 AM
Is this the video? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/3681938.stm
The BBC don't stream in good quality though :(
Posted by: Simon | December 22, 2006 9:28 AM
CNN has some decent video up at their site. The link for it is in the middle of an article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/12/22/giant.squid.ap/index.html
Posted by: Matt Dowling | December 22, 2006 10:11 AM
cnn.com has a video at the following link.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/12/22/giant.squid.ap/index.html
(Sorry if this is the same as the one on the BBC--I couldn't load that one.)
Posted by: Joshua | December 22, 2006 10:11 AM
CANNIBAL! A giant squid attacking a bait squid is pulled up by a research team off the Ogasawara Islands, south of Tokyo, on December 4.
As I recall, Moby Dick has some good lines about cannibalism. It may be time for a re-reading.
Posted by: quork | December 22, 2006 10:21 AM
Here's one as well (german):
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,456216,00.html
Posted by: Markus | December 22, 2006 10:46 AM
I have to admit, I felt a real twinge of sadness when I read about this. Why did they feel the need to capture the thing? How different is this from capturing a whale? From what I've read of octopus and squid intelligence, I don't think it's all that different.
Let the giant squid live.
I enjoy calimari and tako just as much as the next guy, but still, to me, capturing a giant squid is just not the same thing. Okay, now we know where they live; we may have a chance for technology to help us find answers one day to let us observe them; that doesn't mean we have to turn into elephant hunters on the way.
Up to this point, I'd really admired Kubodera's work, too. This just seems so pointless.
I apologize if I'm coming off as a wet blanket here. Just had to get it off my chest.
Posted by: MikeM | December 22, 2006 12:07 PM
It's probably the level of cannibalism equivalent of you eating a hamburger.
And this thing is tiny -- as far as giant squid go. It's only Humbolt sized. Weak!!
Posted by: RPM | December 22, 2006 12:53 PM
PZ--
Finally, he brings me some giant squid vid! This is amazing. My first inclination would have been to jump in the water with it. How dumb would that have been to try to swim with this creature? I'm very curious about their strength, because its not too apparent from the video. And are they really RED like that? Or is this just a "I'm mad at you" sort of thing?
Just curious-- although I've already seen the video at CNN now... but I wasn't able to watch it in Firefox-- it kept asking for Windows Media Player and yakking about being "optimized" for it, and all...
So I had to bite the bullet and upgrade, and STILL turn on my dreaded copy of Explorer (that I save for backwards-ass websites!) in order to see it.
Does anyone know what I have to set up (or what else I could have used) to see this video? I hate dealing with Windows Media anything, or Explorer. Feel free to contact me through the e-mail at my blog. Thanks! --DaveX
Posted by: Daephex | December 22, 2006 1:12 PM
Somewhere in Japan, a large vat of tempura batter is being readied...
Posted by: phototaxi | December 22, 2006 2:02 PM
There is this one at ABC
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2746026
Posted by: dogscratcher | December 22, 2006 2:50 PM
His Revenge is at hand. . Ho, ho, ho!!!!
Posted by: maja | December 22, 2006 4:02 PM
Anybody who's EVER fished in a public waterway should know: if you catch a juvenile, you PUT IT BACK. Especially if it's a member of a endangered species, which these guys seem likely to be.
Where's a game warden when you need one?
Posted by: mjfgates | December 22, 2006 7:15 PM
Few quotes from the AP article...
...and says the elusive creatures may be more plentiful than previously believed, a researcher said Friday.
He also said that, judging by the number of whales that feed on them, there may be many more giant squid than previously thought.
I don't think they are in danger of extinction at all.
Heck, I prefer catching juvenile halibut. Much better eating. I am more likely to release the two hundred pound mature adult. It has grown past the capabilities of most predators, is in prime reproductive years, and is not nearly as tasty.
Posted by: Sean | December 23, 2006 1:05 AM
National Geographic has a photo, if not a video. I'd say this is a promising place for a video to appear.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061222-giant-squid.html
Posted by: Monado | December 30, 2006 10:57 AM
Why did they have to capture it? Why did they have to kill the poor thing? Im not a scientist but wouldn't you learn more from a Giant Squid if it was alive, and you didnt kill it?????? What kind of people are conducting this research? Im sure if they wanted to, they could have come up with a better way to gather information, video, pictures whatever with out killing it. They should be ashamed of themselves. How ignorant can they be?
Posted by: C. Douglas | January 2, 2007 3:49 PM