Don't know how old or new this is, but they discovered roughly where these critters lurk beneath the ocean, and at 900 meters below the surface they captured shots of this!

http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/giant-s...7804509424.html

Apparently the size of a bus!

No, alien spacecraft.

Holy crap that's cool.

That's japan for you, bringing the latest in JDM animals.

YAY FOR OUT OF CONTEXT!

It's wrong in and out of context

thats fuckin awesome.

Next they will find Godzilla !!!!

That's no squid... that's dukes mom!

RUNAWAY!

That's awesome, but I wish they got video of it or more pics

I've been accidentally following the attempts to photograph a giant squid in the ocean for a couple years now. Cool that they finally managed it

As big as a bus?

That's a lot of calamari! Let me warm up my deep fryer.

Estimated 26 feet long.

Wow awesome! It'd probably be useful to look at the deep sea for wierd creatures in that we haven't found yet, then to look for aliens.

I want to give it a hug.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...es/giant_squid/

a bunch of other pics from NGC

Someone had to...

I spy you visit fark.com too

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thats awesome, maybe there are some more bigger ones?!?

awesome, as a diver, i love aquatic research and these sorts of things are just too cool.

As someone who'd like to dive. I'd love not getting eaten by one.


Crazy. Proof that theres still a ton of things to be discoverd.

-=Rich=-

Yeah, true. I think people should first discover/explore what's right beneath our feet, rather than to look to the skies first.

Psh, who cares. What's better? Building an underwater city on the same boring (dying) planet or mastering the ability of space travel and colonizing efforts?

What if the answer to all lifes questions and the ability to save our planet was in the unexplored sea? It'd be hell of a lot easier to go 10 kilometers down then to fly a couple of light years away.

Phix, you Phule, you Phail.

That's all I have to say

What if I was made of carbon fiber?

Yeah they do get bigger, there is the Giant Squid and then there is whats called a Collossal Squid, which is bigger than the Giant Squid. This one is 8 metres which is about the size of a London double decka bus. They go up to I think 30 metres, where they start to attack and munch of Sperm Whales.

Good point...we make a mandate to return back to the Moon & Mars which are very worthy causes but we should be also exploring places closer to home like our own oceans. Also, I wonder how far down could we excavate into the earth's crust...

The answer to Life, The Universe, And everything is 42, didn't you know that ?.

the deepest drilling project ever reached 12.261 km deep in the kola penninsula, russia.

http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF7/725.html