Giant Squid Photographed in deep sea

[B. Jena]

Japanese scientists have photographed a giant squid in the wild for the first time, ending a long quest to document one of the most mysterious creatures of the deep sea. Japanese scientists, using a digital camera dangling about 3,300 feet below the surface of the Pacific, about 500 miles south of Tokyo, obtained the photos of the largest known invertebrate on Earth. Tsunemi Kubodera and Kyoichi Mori, writing in the British journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, said the giant squid was about 26 feet long, with tentacles measuring 18 feet. The pictures were taken as the squid attacked bait trailing below a marker buoy.

[arjunsmenon]

Can we get a link to this or the photograph of the giant squid.

[B. Jena]

Can we get a link to this or the photograph of the giant squid.

Get a link as below to download the Giant Squid Photographs:

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsPhotoPresentation.aspx?type=scienceNews&imageID=2005-09-27T234408Z_01_DIT783884_RTRUKOP_0_PICTURE0.xml

[MANU JOHN]

you can get good pictures of the gaint squid at nationalgeographic.com:)

[Maggero]

Please kindly post one of the photos. Am anicious to how it looks.Japanese scientists have photographed a giant squid in the wild for the first time, ending a long quest to document one of the most mysterious creatures of the deep sea. Japanese scientists, using a digital camera dangling about 3,300 feet below the surface of the Pacific, about 500 miles south of Tokyo, obtained the photos of the largest known invertebrate on Earth. Tsunemi Kubodera and Kyoichi Mori, writing in the British journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, said the giant squid was about 26 feet long, with tentacles measuring 18 feet. The pictures were taken as the squid attacked bait trailing below a marker buoy.

[rocksea]

Please kindly post one of the photos. Am anicious to how it looks.itz deep see photograph, so you cant get a good idea i think.
ngm photos are here: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/photogalleries/giant_squid/index.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/photogalleries/giant_squid/images/primary/squid2.jpg

may be better photos exist, dont know.
herez a feature on them: http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0408/feature2/index.html