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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]
Additionally, methods such as plastination have made it possible to display authentic giant squid specimens in a dry state. A giant squid was first plastinated in 2000 and this specimen, nicknamed "Wheke" , has been on display at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris since 2008; two further specimens were plastinated in 2004, [85 ...
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.
Then a tiny remnant population was found surviving in Bixby Cove near Big Sur in 1914, site of the now Instagram famous Bixby bridge. It wasn't until 1977 that the otters were listed as threatened ...
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 ...
When the glass squid keeps the sacs closed, its body is see-through, making it invisible to predators and prey. The sacs look like tiny polka dots covering its translucent body.
The giant squid (Architeuthis dux, pictured) was for a long time thought to be the largest extant cephalopod. It is now known that the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) attains an even greater maximum size. The giant squid seen here measured 9.24 m (30.3 ft) in total length and had a mantle length of 1.79 m (5.9 ft).
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