Japanese researchers, the same group that caught the photographs in 2004, have filmed a live giant squid. The research team, led by Tsunemi Kubodera, videotaped the giant squid at the surface as they captured it, on a squid bait, off the Ogasawara Islands south of Tokyo, earlier this month. The squid was a female juvenile of about 24ft this falls shy of the 60ft record.
Watch cool video from Reuters here (short commercial first, alas).It should be noted though that the mother of all giant squid--the still-elusive Architeuthis dux--is an Atlantic species.
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