Architeuthis On Film

Published on 2005-09-28 by Mark VandeWettering

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.