Ian Sample
Wednesday September 28, 2005
The Guardian
A photograph released by Dr Tsunemi Kubodera of Tokyo's National Science Museum of an 8m (26ft) long giant squid taken as it attacked bait on a longline at 900m depth off Japan's Bonin islands. Photograph: AP
Captured on film for the first time in the wild, a giant squid attacks a baited long line off the coast of Japan. Previous specimens have been found either washed ashore or entangled in trawler nets, leaving scientists in the dark about their natural habitats, movements and behaviour.
Tsunemi Kubodera, a zoologist at the National Science Museum in Tokyo, located them by tracking sperm whales, regular hunters of giant squid.
At each site he dropped a buoy with a 1km-long baited line, fitted with a camera. This shot, taken at a depth of 900 metres, shows an eight-metre long giant squid, according to Proceedings of the Royal Society B today. The images suggest the creature is a more active predator than previously thought.
2 comments:
mmmmm he looks tasty!!
dude how did you put the picture at the top of your blog??
I am so proud of that! I uploaded it onto my blog and then I read the html on the template and fitted it into the stuff bout the header....cut and pastey job..not too sure how i did it but really proud i managed it!
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