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Giant from the Deep is Spotted in Japan

posted by cmn32480 on Friday January 01 2016, @10:03AM   
from the GODZILLA!!!!!!! dept.

mendax writes:

The New York Times ran a story yesterday about an example of elusive giant squid, complete with video, having been spotted alive in Toyama Bay off the coast of Japan:

They can be as big as a bus, or even bigger, and yet the elusive giant squid has hardly been spotted swimming alive in the ocean. [...]

The last time a giant squid was captured on video, though less vividly so, was during a scientific expedition in 2012. Photos of the creature in the wild were captured for the first time in 2005 by Japanese researchers, stirring excitement among those who had long sought to glimpse a giant squid in its natural habitat.

"This has been a mystery for a thousand years," Richard Ellis, author of "Monsters of the Sea," said of the photographs at the time. "Nobody knew what they looked like in the wild."

The original CNN story can be found here.

Hopefully, this noble creature is not turned into sashimi.

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• Now with the great taste of fish Now with the great taste of fish (Score: 3, Informative) by NoMaster on Friday January 01 2016, @12:07PM

  by NoMaster (3543) on Friday January 01 2016, @12:07PM (#283356)

  Hopefully, this noble creature is not turned into sashimi.

  They taste like arse apparently. Ammonium chloride makes good salmiak & a handy soldering iron tip cleaner, but isn't so good with fish...

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• Re:Now with the great taste of fish Re:Now with the great taste of fish (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 01 2016, @05:02PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 01 2016, @05:02PM (#283417)

  Are you kidding? This is the Japanese we're talking about. The UN will declare these creatures protected and then Japan will start a "scientific" hunting program to "study" them (and sell them in high-end fish markets).

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  • Re:Now with the great taste of fish (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 02 2016, @03:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 02 2016, @03:02AM (#283576)

    Troll huh? Convince me it [ifaw.org] wouldn't [unl.edu] happen [sciencemag.org].

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