Giant Octopus Captured On Film

[DocFrance]

Seafood soup!

[Psychotic]

I never thought I'd see such spam in EotW. Wow.

As for the giant squid, I'm sure it's very friendly and all that, but I'd prefer it if it stayed a long way underwater, a long way from me.

[GooeyToast]

C'mon guys, you're ruining my thread.

[Rengori]

Giant squid have been known to exist for decades. We find their tentacles in the stomaches of very large whales, on occasion. This is the first photo, though.

There have been lots of photos of Giant Squids taken. They were all dead though.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

If I see more spam I'm going to start stamping EoEO bans on people.

[DK]

The video doesn't work for me on IE either.

[udsuna]

C'mon guys, you're ruining my thread.

Your thread started with a link and "Ultros exists!".... what is there to ruin? You didn't have a direction, so people just pulled it off into wherever they wanted to go with it.

And giant squids aren't friendly.... they're predatory and eat anything made of meat. We might be safe, as we're tiny and they wouldn't notice, much less care about, us. But our subs aren't.... though they've yet to attack a boat, except in odd sea stories, so they might not care that much about us.

[edczxcvbnm]

Giant Squid? PFFFFT! Its all about the Colassal Squid which is bigger and even meaner.
Instead of sharp teeth on the sucction cups they have huge hook like claws to really
grab onto something....also here is my favorite picture of a giant squid. smurfED!

[Shadowflare]

http://www.bobsanimalfights.com/squidvswhale.html

Interesting accounts that are apparently true.

[SomethingBig]

Tsunemi Kubodera knew he had something big.

That's not at all true.

I hope they catch Nessie on footage next.

[Aerio]

Actually, a couple years back, I read an aritcle about a squid even bigger than Arciteuthis dux. It appearently lives in artic waters, so is even rarer for a human to encounter. Not sure if that really has much to do with the topic, but interesting stuff. Also, there are signs that giant squids are the agressive attackers on sperm whales, not just whales eating them. Dudududu

[Necronopticous]

That's amazing, I'm not surprised it was the Japanese that accomplished this!

[Big D]

This is completely awesomw, since no-one's ever seen one of those creatures alive before. We've known they exist for ages, but the only ones ever found have been dead - so this news is really very cool.[q=Shoden]they usually pwn Sperm whales.[/q]Actually, sperm whales eat them - although quite a few whales have scarred faces from their encounters.

Ambergris - the gooey stuff used as a fixative in perfumes - is made from the undigested remains of giant squid beaks that accumulate in sperm whales' guts. So people have long been wearing the processed remains of giant squid, but we've only just now seen one alive...

There are sperm whales 10-metre giant squid in the seas around my country, so we've had a few good examples of dead squid wash up on our shores.

Really cool that one has finally been observed alive, though.

[Rengori]

Actually, a couple years back, I read an aritcle about a squid even bigger than Arciteuthis dux. It appearently lives in artic waters, so is even rarer for a human to encounter. Not sure if that really has much to do with the topic, but interesting stuff.

Is there by any chance a giant octopus that we could talk about? It would technically be more on topic.

[Big D]

There are plenty of giant octopus around, and they've been seen - and encountered - in the wild plenty of times. The Pacific Octopus measures up to five meters (16 feet) with its tentacles outstretched.
But the giant squid's always been, and still is, more mysterious because it lives at greater depths.

Some people speculate that giant squid could read up to 30m (100 feet) in length; it'll be interesting to see if this is actually true in any cases, or just speculation by cryptozoologists.