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Giant Squid: Caught On Camera! Discovery Channel Tonight!

mark — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:33:40 +0000

Tonight we finally get a chance to see the first-ever footage of a living Giant Squid. It’s been almost a year since this one was caught by Japanese researchers off the Ogasawara islands, south of Tokyo.

AP Photo/Tsunemi Kubodera of the National Science Museum of Japan

The show airs twice tonight, at 8pm Eastern, and 12am. See the listings for yourself.

Incredible Oarfish Sighting Photos

mark — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:08:25 +0000

photo: Kidjurel from BloodyDecks.com

In doing a Google Image search for oarfish, I found a really great forum entry with some incredible oarfish photos. Check it out here.

More Deep Sea Creatures

mark — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:13:53 +0000

Super-awesome Sea spider. (I’m pretty sure that’s the Latin name)

photo: Paul H. Yancey Ph.D.

Sometimes it’s best to go straight to the source. I just found this page with a large number of very raw photos of deep sea critters. The site is from Paul H. Yancey Ph.D., who is a professor of Biology at Whitman College in Washington State. The pages are a little hard to read, but there are lots and lots of photos, especially of things that you don’t normally get to see like worms, sea spiders, and the cool weird stuff that I don’t know anything about.

MonsterQuest on the History Channel Takes on the Giant Squid

mark — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:22:37 +0000

I LOVE giant squids. The show MonsterQuest on the History Channel just aired a show all about the quest for the giant squid. It was pretty fun. I don’t think I ever want to get in salt water again. I’m not going to spoil the end for you, but I will say that they find some neat stuff.

The show airs again in 3 1/2 hours, Friday November 16th at 3am.

Awesome Deep Sea and Giant Squid T-Shirts

mark — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:20:46 +0000

Over the weekend my wife and I went to a great craft fair in Pittsburgh called Handmade Arcade. One of the vendors that really caught my eye was a t-shirt printing joint called SquidFire out of Baltimore Maryland. They have a great, unusual take on deep-sea creatures, and they have all kinds of stuff with giant (or regular I suppose) squids all over it. There are other images besides sea creatures too….

Colossal Squid Caught in Antarctic Waters!

mark — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:37:35 +0000

As if Giant Squids weren’t cool enough, BEHOLD THE COLOSSAL SQUID!!! Larger than it cousin the giant squid, and believed to be nastier, this is the first living specimen ever caught, and the first to ever be captured on film. Of course it died in the capturing, but the footage should be incredibly valuable.

For more on Colossal Squids check out Wikipedia.

Rare Deep-Sea Frilled Shark Filmed in Japan

mark — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:41:21 +0000

Japanese fisherman found a living deep-sea Frilled Shark this week. Although science did know about this shark before now, it has rarely been seen alive, and this has got to be the best video footage ever taken of the eel-like “living fossil”. Deep-sea creatures are so cool.

Check out the video here.

Real Sea Monsters!

mark — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:16:28 +0000

First of all, I love the ocean creatures. I’m not sure why, but sea life has always fascinated me, and deep-sea creatures have always been my favorites. The environment they live in is so extreme, and they tend to be FREAKY lookin’!

One of the few Oarfish ever seen surfaced at Santa Catalina Island, California on August 16th.

photo: VIMAS

This is not a picture of the actual fish, but I wanted you to see what these things look like. No one really knows the limit, but these fish can get enormous.

Also, three fisherman found some arms and a tentacle of a giant squid floating near Santa Cruz Island. We don’t get giant squid developments all that often, so this is pretty cool.