Giant squid caught on video for the second time

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/science/giant-squid-cephalopod-video.html

by bookofjoe • 7 years ago

161 63 7 years ago

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Elof• 7 years ago

Anyone have a link that isn’t paywalled?

stevemk14ebr• 7 years ago

http://archive.is/fDAK8

ebg13• 7 years ago

I searched for "giant squid second time" and a link to digg came up (blast from the past). I clicked on that and it has a link to the nytimes, except when I click through from there it doesn't trigger the paywall for me. I wonder how that works and if HN can get in on it.

martindale2• 7 years ago

Are we past the point of revolting against our new advertising overlords yet?

satori99• 7 years ago

The "web" link underneath the post title is there so you can do exactly this to get around paywalls which have exceptions for those who come from a search page.

chachachoney• 7 years ago

Just video: https://twitter.com/DukeU/status/1142113774205362176

jxramos• 7 years ago

So mesmerizing and graceful; the squid is more medusa-like than the camera though.

nottorp• 7 years ago

Isn't this the original source?

https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/19biolum/logs/ju...

xwdv• 7 years ago

I wonder if it’s possible for somewhere in the deep ocean for an environment to exist with the perfect availability of resources for one of these squid to grow without bound, until they reach a size that can threaten ships.

0xFFFE• 7 years ago

We humans are too hypocritical to let that happen, we conserve other species only as long as they remain submissive. The moment we feel threatened by them (think giant squids sinking ships) we start killing them off.

zeven7• 7 years ago

Uh, what? If they start sinking ships, we should start killing them off.

emmelaich2• 7 years ago

Hypocrisy is an interesting synonym for self-preservation.

ikeyany• 7 years ago

What kind of moronic creature kills off threats?

sumedh• 7 years ago

we start killing them off.

or else they will kill us?

DoreenMichele4• 7 years ago

They probably did historically threaten ships back when ships were wooden and smaller on average than modern ships. IIRC, the belief is that The Kraken was probably a giant squid.

SteveNuts• 7 years ago

Source? Not that I don't believe you, that's just fascinating if there's any shred of evidence.

Iv• 7 years ago

In 2003, a famous navigator, Olivier de Kersauson, claims his ship has been "attacked" by a giant squid and that he had to cut a tentacle to free the rudder of his ship. Many people doubted his story at the time, as he had no proofs of it and at the time we had no reports of giant squid at ships' depths.

pvaldes3• 7 years ago

A direct attack is very unprobable by the methabolism of giant squids. Being tangled in the chain of an anchor, lifted and mistaken by an attack on the other hand is perfectly possible.

CodiePetersen2• 7 years ago

I think they probably did get really big. There are some cases of dead sperm whales washing up that have appeared to be attacked by giant squid. Coupled with the fact that the oceans used to be teeming with life before commercial fishing I would imagine perfect availability would definitely get you some big squid.

This paper talks about fishery populations during WW2 when it was to dangerous to fish. So if you think about how many fish would be available, I imagine that you could have many giant ones roaming around. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2929348/

mkl2• 7 years ago

As I understand it, the scars on sperm whales can be a bit misleading. Sperm whales feed on giant squid, and acquire sucker scars in the process when the squid resist. Very large sucker scars on adult sperm whales are thought to be acquired when the whales are younger and smaller, and to stretch as the whales grow.

purplezooey• 7 years ago

the Kraken returns

lota-putty• 7 years ago

If you're just looking for footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqim34DvCrs

itronitron• 7 years ago

very neat to see that they swim 'forward' with their tentacles grouped together as one. freaky

sambroner• 7 years ago

I saw that too. I couldn’t tell if it was a video artifact or not though.

huis2• 7 years ago

What I also find a kind of 'freaky' is that it touches the object and then feels it is attached to something and says 'nope!'. And it is gone.

Ofcourse this is no proof but to me it shows some kind of intelligence.

pvaldes3• 7 years ago

Squids do not use the tentacles to swim and all species advance with the ten arms fused in a cone. Taking the more aquadynamic shape possible Is the more efficient way to swim for them

jolmg• 7 years ago

I wish there was some kind of relatable size reference in the video, like a car or person next to it or something.

qwerty456127• 7 years ago

How giant it actually is?

garmaine2• 7 years ago

The size of a small boat. Comparable to a whale.

mkl2• 7 years ago

A small whale. Less than half the length of a blue whale, and less than 1% the mass.

growtofill• 7 years ago

I wondered the same. From the article (conversion to metric mine):

this one was only — “only” — about 10 feet (3 m) long: a juvenile, in a species that can grow to nearly 40 feet (12 m)

annadane• 7 years ago

https://xkcd.com/1176/

qkhhly• 7 years ago

You people may be thinking about thinking about intelligence. I am mostly thinking about: Wow, 10 feet long grilled squid. LOL!

Giant squid caught on video for the second time

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