Japanese scientists capture giant squid on camera ...
PARIS (AFP) - Japanese zoologists have made the first recording of a live
giant squid, one of the strangest and most elusive creatures in the world.
The size of a bus, with vast eyes and a querulous beak, Architeuthis has
long nourished myth and literature, most memorably in Jules Vernes'
"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," in which a squid tried to engulf the
submarine Nautilus with its suckered tentacles.
Until now, the only evidence of giant squids was extraordinarily rare --
from dead squids that washed up on remote shores or got snagged on a
long-line fish hook or from ships' crews who spotted the deep-sea denizen
as it made a sortie near the surface.more
Not sure I'd want to admit that myself... :P
