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Tsunemi Kubodera (窪寺 恒己, Kubodera Tsunemi, born 1951 in Nakano, Tokyo [1]) is a Japanese zoologist with the National Museum of Nature and Science.On September 30, 2004, Kubodera and his team became the first people to photograph a live giant squid in its natural habitat. [2]
A native of Madison Heights, Michigan, Wyland began painting as a child and attended Detroit's Center for Creative Studies in the 1970s. [1] His connection with whales began when he was 14 on a visit with his family to Laguna Beach, California where he saw the ocean for the first time and witnessed several gray whales migrating down the California coast towards Mexico. [2]
Shedd Aquarium (formally the John G. Shedd Aquarium) is an indoor public aquarium in Chicago.Opened on May 30, 1930, the 5 million US gal (19,000,000 L; 4,200,000 imp gal) aquarium holds about 32,000 animals and is the third largest aquarium in the Western Hemisphere, after the Georgia Aquarium and Monterey Bay Aquarium.
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Apart from two partial specimens (#2 and 3) recovered from sperm whale stomachs in the mid-1950s—initially misidentified as belonging to the giant squid genus, Architeuthis [2] —and a single juvenile individual of 86 mm (3.4 in) mantle length , [3] little else was known about the species until additional specimens began receiving coverage ...
Photo shot through a polarizing filter of a Cranchiidae sp from the Operation Deep Scope Expedition 2004. This squid, about four-inches across, uses transparency to hide from potential predators.
Whale Tower: Broderick Tower, Detroit, Michigan: October 13, 1997: Still intact. Was covered by lighted advertising during the 2006 World Series and infrequently afterward, but was eventually re-exposed to public view. The mural will not be maintained by the newly renovated Broderick Tower apartments and will fade naturally. [16] 77: Eye of the ...
In Childhood's End, one of the characters stows away on an alien spacecraft by hiding inside a model of a giant squid battling a whale. A giant squid is a key player in Michael Crichton's novel Sphere, as well as in the film version. James Bond fights a giant squid in Ian Fleming's book, Dr. No. The scene is absent from the film adaption.