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Saturday, February 24, 2007
A giant squid was caught by fishermen in New Zealand, measuring nearly 40 feet long (about the size of a school bus), just a few feet short of a Colossal Squid. It is believed to be the first time a squid of this size has ever been captured. Here is the video from MSNBC. In September, a team of Japanese oceanographers filmed a live 42.6 foot (13 m) giant squid for the first time ever. The researchers lured the squid with a long line fitted with squid bait and dangling hooks that were designed to snag the creature when it went for the bait. The device had worked once before with the giant Architeuthisa and researchers had taken many still photographs. This is the first time the enormous squid has been filmed on video in its natural habitat. Once the squid was hooked, it took the creature more than four hours to detach itself, losing a 15-foot portion of one of its tentacle in the process. (The PETA folks are going to love that!) "It was exciting to get a live Architeuthis tentacle. It was still functioning when we got it on the boat," Dr Kubodera told the BBC. The huge suckers on the tentacle repeatedly gripped the boat beck and Dr. Kubodera's fingers "when he prodded the severed appendage."
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