Saturday, January 12, 2013

They Finally Got a Giant Squid on Video!

We finally got one!

After many years of trying, marine biologists have gotten video of a real, live giant squid. A film crew made hundreds of attempts before finally "capturing" the notoriously shy and very mysterious marine animal on digital film. Using cutting-edge video technology, researchers from the National Science Museum of Japan and Florida's Ocean Research & Conservation Association (ORCA) were able to send a camera down over 3000 feet below the surface and record the adult giant squid in it's natural ocean habitat.

Pretty amazing stuff, whether you're a nature geek or not!

Check out the video:



The gold and silver colored cephalopod looked and acted pretty differently than what many experts expected. According to one researcher from ORCA:
"There'd been controversy about whether the giant squid was an active predator or whether it just floated around because of its neutral buoyancy... Clearly, from what we saw, it's an active predator. It's stunning footage."
Learn some mo': Remarkable New Giant Squid Footage Surprises Experts

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