This is the supposed footage of a giant squid, caught by the Japanese.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL8IuhqhXfk

I think the size is hard to make out, but enjoy


Oh and check this out aswell :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGLUT62mHz4...ted&search=

Yeah, it is amazing footage, and also the method with which they captured the footage is equally as amazing......but I believe that a thread on this is already open.

Meh... I did a search and didn't find anything

I think it was an "off-shoot" of another thread, not an original heading of a thread....but don't misunderstand me, it's IS worth talking about.

Well i think the footage is a bit dissapointing to be honest, but it's better than nothing

You're a little late, this was huge news back last october when the footage was taken. We had alot of large discussions about it, including articles on the front page.
Feel free to do a search for other topics using the search feature.

I may be biased, but i'm gonna leave this open however because i love topics about Giant/Colossai Squids heh. Yeah, it's not much to see but it's pretty interesting nonetheless. About time at least.

Making a mental note not to eat lunch at the computer again.

I prefer my giant squid in real time

Wow, it's that old ?!?

How could i have missed it

I hope it's new to some of the posters around here then.

And yeah Jelly i would've loved to see it in realtime and to have seen the actual body/head, but i guess it's a matter of time before it happens.

So do I Burnside. What's intriguing is that it was considered to be a mythical creature until some bodies started washing up on shore.

Well, considering that this HAS to be a "walk before you run" undertaking, it's a good start.

Sure is, i just can't believe they atleast didn't use a camera that actually took 60 fps, i mean even a webcam can do that !

Well, it's an exlusive deep sea creature.
There are many creatures in the ocean that have only recently became known species. And many that started out as mythical creatures first, due to the fact that information about them came generally from word of mouth of a corpse washed up on some beach. Gradually as more and more bodies appeared it became clear this was a real species that was being delt with, and overtime it moved away from the world of Cryptozoology and into real science books.
*shrugs* I can definately imagine why some people would have a hard time believing in a colossal sized predatory jellyfish, back in the day.

Are they sure it was a giant squid? Also, isn't there multiple species of giant squid?

This is very interesting though since it has never been caught on film before, hopefully we'll have more encounters like this in the future

There are many species of large squids, however there is only one classification that is referred too as the 'Giant Squid', and even further still only one species of the classification that has been confirmed. That's what they believe they caught on film, the Architeuthis dux.

There really is no specific way of knowing exactly what was caught on the camera here, othr than it is definately a Giant Squid, not Colossal or Humbolt etc.

now i want calamari for dinner...

*slaps knee*

That joke is still as funny as the first hundred times i heard it!

Then you will not stop laughing if you visit Greece.....

Just think, today i watched a show saying "we have never found footage of a giant squid ever before and we might never find one" lol

You should take your act on the road, and..you know...never come back.

Its great video but I have to say that I have the same complaint in that I really would have liked to have had a better idea of size/scale.

And here's a vid to follow on from original poster's one ....

They have a severed tentacle from the hook, and it's still moving around...nerves I guess, this is pretty gross....

Click for vid 2

Tsk tsk SamathaUK23 i already posted that in the OP

Anyways i dreamt last night that i was browsing UM and this thread had 68 replies so it will be exciting to see if i can SEE THE FUTURE *drumrolls and mysterious music starts playing

^...odd dream...

Oh....kalamarakia pilafi....

and a big one too!

Amazing, and totally new to me, wow! Reminds me of that fish that were supposed to have been dead for millions of years, The Coeleachant or whatever it's name was...suddenly they found it alive!

Thnx Aewee i havent seen this footage yet and im pretty interested in the whole giant squid thing

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Hey, any news of this squid's activity nowadays?

not to my knowledge

I clar up some misconceptions about the coelecanth. The species we have found today in our waters are not the ones that went extinct. The coelecanth is a family of fishes we thought to be extinct, until we ffound these 2 species completely new to science.

Well...yeah sorta...

The Coelacanth specimen caught in 1938 is still considered to be the zoological find of the century. This 'living fossil' comes from a lineage of fishes that was thought to have been extinct since the time of the dinosaurs.

Coelacanths are known from the fossil record dating back over 360 million years, with a peak in abundance about 240 million years ago. Before 1938 they were believed to have become extinct approximately 80 million years ago, when they disappeared from the fossil record.

It is the only living member of a very old group of fishes, the actinistians (Coelanacanthimorpha). About 120 species of coelacanths are known from fossils. They were predominantly small marine fish (though some lived in freshwater) which were thought to have died out at the end of the Mesozoic era more than 60 million years ago. They flourished in the Triassic; a fossil of a coelacanth (Whiteia) was discovered in the Orange Free State which dates to that time .The Coelacanthimorpha and lungfishes are separate side-branches of the primitive fish group that gave rise to the amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Although Latimeria is not a “missing link” in the story of evolution, it is the sole survivor of a line of development that otherwise became extinct.

Ok not one of the video's came up for me

I want to see GIANT SQUID!!!

^you wanna see something bigger than giant Squid? Try a Colossal Squid.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...d-pictures.html
http://www.freakingnews.com/Colossal-Squid...tures-33424.asp

damn, you beat me to it. but nice job

and i thought this post was finished like a while ago. someone bring it back?

THAT'S HOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT...Thanks