Want to know how to capture a Giant Squid on video? Some people use worms to attract fish. Others use intricately painted lures or feathery flies.To get the catch of a lifetime, marine biologist Edith Widder built a bioluminescent sphere that mimics the frenzied pinwheel display of a panicked jellyfish.Her soccer-ball-sized creation enticed a . . . → Read More: How to get video of the largest invertebrate
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Finally found, albiet brief, video of the giant squid. Spectacular! Although it is unlikely, despite what the reporter states, that Giant Squids obtain sizes of 50 feet. As I mention in this post that covers everything you wanted to know about the Giant Squid, the longest scientifically recorded length of a Giant Squid is . . . → Read More: First Video Glimpse of the Giant Squid
By Dr. M, on  December 16th, 2012  8 comments  Cephalopods, Organisms  Architeuthis, Discovery Channel, Giant Squid, Kubodera, O'Shea, Ogasawara Islands If you haven’t already heard, Discovery Channel announced that they have captured Architeuthis dux, aka the Giant Squid on video. The giant squid has been captured on video in its natural habitat for the first time ever. This long-sought after footage — considered by many to be the Holy Grail of natural history filmmaking — . . . → Read More: Giant Squid on Video?!
Robert Benz and his buddies were fishing Sunday about 12 miles offshore from Port Salerno when they spotted something floating in the water. It turned out to be a 23-foot long giant squid. The main part of the body was about 11-feet long, but with its two long tentacles, it barely fit in the . . . → Read More: Giant Squid Found off Florida
By Dr. M, on June 8th, 2011 5 comments Cephalopods, Climate Change, Conservation & Environment, Editor's Desk, Fishing, Industry & Government, Opinion & Editorial, Organisms acidification, Architeuthis, climate change, conservation, Giant Squid, Overfishing, World Ocean Day How many of you see a panda and automatically think of conservation and the World Wildlife Fund? The well-known panda logo was designed by the famous conservationist Sir Peter Scott. one of the founding members of WWF. The idea originated from a panda named Chi Chi transferred into the London Zoo in the same year . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: The Giant Squid Can Be A Panda For The Ocean
By Dr. M, on January 30th, 2011 8 comments Adaptations, Cephalopods, Organisms Architeuthis, body size, Giant Squid, mantle, Predation, Reproduction, siphon, squid In the following post I will enumerate the many ways in which current science repeatedly demonstrates that giant squids are awesomesauce. Awesome: (adj) amazing, awe-inspiring, awful, awing (inspiring awe or admiration or wonder) “New York is an amazing city”; “the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight”; “the awesome complexity of the universe”; “this sea, whose . . . → Read More: From The Editor’s Desk: Giant Squid=Awesomesauce
By Dr. M, on February 3rd, 2010 3 comments Cephalopods aquaculture, Architeuthis, Giant Squid, squid, Steve O'Shea Steve O’Shea’s end game is to rear a giant squid in an aquarium. Step 1, try something easier first. He is rearing broad squid, Sepioteuthis australis, and has set up SQUIDCAM – a movable web-cam which operates 24/7 – so that enthusiasts around the world can monitor his progress. Earlier attempts in 2000 saw him . . . → Read More: Giant Squid in an Aquarium
By Dr. M, on September 21st, 2009 3 comments Cephalopods, Expeditions, Organisms Architeuthis, Giant Squid, Gulf of Mexico, NOAA, Smithsonian NOAA scientists with giant squid aboard the NOAA research vessel Gordon Gunter. (Credit: NOAA) From NOAA… Scientists from NOAA’s Fisheries Service have captured a giant squid while conducting research off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. This is only the second known giant squid obtained from the Gulf of Mexico – the . . . → Read More: Architeuthis Caught In Gulf of Mexico
By Dr. M, on July 20th, 2009 13 comments Cephalopods, Opinion & Editorial, Organisms Architeuthis, California, Docidicus gigas, fail, Giant Squid, Humboldt Squid, media, press Point 1: The Giant Squid is Architeuthis dux. The Humboldt (or the Red Devil or Jumbo) Squid is Dosidicus gigas Point 2: The Humboldt Squid while large at ~2m in length and 45kg is not as large as the Giant Squid at 10-14m in length and 200-300kg. Point 3: The Humboldt Squid can be found . . . → Read More: Squid Fail
By Dr. M, on December 22nd, 2006 11 comments Cephalopods 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Architeuthis, Giant Squid, Mollusca, squid How separated is Architeuthis and Kevin Bacon you ask? As you might remember although the Giant Squid had some cameos in previous B movies, it really was not until 1954 in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea that Mr. G. Squid hit the big time. In this movie, the Giant Squid shared the screen with . . . → Read More: Archive: Architeuthis is 3 Degrees from Kevin Bacon
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