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A frame from the first colour film of a live giant squid in its natural habitat, [nb 1] recorded from a manned submersible off Japan's Ogasawara Islands in July 2012. The animal (#549 on this list) is seen feeding on a 1-metre-long Thysanoteuthis rhombus (diamondback squid), which was used as bait in conjunction with a flashing squid jig. [2]
It was found that giant squid are preyed upon not only by sperm whales but by a wide range of other animals, including albacore , lancetfish (#149 and 164; see #48 for 19th century record), swordfish , blue sharks (#215 and 375), Portuguese dogfish , shortfin mako sharks (#205 and 431), sleeper sharks (#396, 405, 430, 432, and 433), and ...
An unusual number (≈25–30) of mostly dead giant squid found by Gloucester, Massachusetts fishermen, with similar number estimated to have been obtained by vessels from other areas. Data from Capt. J.W. Collins of the United States Fish Commission , who at the time of the incident commanded schooner Howard , which collected five specimens.
Magnoteuthis microlucens is a species of squid; the most common species of Mastigoteuthis around the main Hawaiian Islands. [2] A specimen was caught in a filter placed in one of the deep-sea pipelines of the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA) off the Hawaiian Islands in the summer of 2007. On June 12, 2007, the creature was ...
A video shows the long creature with tentacles and large eyes floating through the water and excreting a cloud of greenish-yellow ink. ... The squid was spotted more than 3,600 feet underwater.
This "Fortunate Island" was a destination on St. Brendan's Voyage, one of whose adventures was the landing of the crew on an island-sized monstrous fish, [ac] as depicted in a 17th-century engraving (cf. figure right); [197] and this monstrous fish, according to Bartholin was the aforementioned hafgufa, [160] which has already been discussed ...
Giant squid caught by hook and line off Greymouth, New Zealand, on 16 August 2018 (#657 on this list). It now forms part of the collections of the Auckland War Memorial Museum. This list of giant squid specimens and sightings since 2015 is a timeline of recent human encounters with members of the genus Architeuthis, popularly known as giant squid.
Euprymna scolopes, also known as the Hawaiian bobtail squid, is a species of bobtail squid in the family Sepiolidae native to the central Pacific Ocean, where it occurs in shallow coastal waters off the Hawaiian Islands and Midway Island.