Has the giant squid ever been filmed alive in the deep ocean?
For centuries it was a myth. Then in 2004, Japanese scientists captured the first-ever images of a living giant squid - eight kilometers out to sea.
The answer
The giant squid (Architeuthis dux) remained unseen alive in its natural habitat until 2004, when Japanese researchers Tsunemi Kubodera and Kyoichi Mori photographed one at 900 meters depth in the North Pacific. The first video footage came in 2012, captured by a team using a stealth camera called Medusa in waters near the Ogasawara Islands at 630 meters. In 2019, NOAA researchers filmed a giant squid in the Gulf of Mexico at 759 meters using a low-light camera - the first sighting in US waters. Giant squid can reach 13 meters in length and possess the largest eyes in the animal kingdom, measuring up to 27 centimeters across.
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