"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
You might know him as the giant squid, and Japanese researchers Kubodera and Mori caught him on film when he attacked a bait trap 900m below the surface of the North Pacific off of the Ogasawara Islands. Size: about 8 meters. That’s a lot of calamari. Link via the Panda’s Thumb.
Links: A PDF of the paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.
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