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Architeuthis (Giant Squid) Sightings
- Thread starter Whitey
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I am not keen on the treatment, but this vid from Japan is confirmed by Mike Veccione as an Architeuthis specimen:
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I saw this one on Twitter--hard to know the context. Has anyone heard anything more? Definitely looks like a not-very-well smallish Archi. Wonder what the events were leading up to the footage.
Hi T! If you go to the post (you can click on the Twitter bird logo on the upper-right of the post above), and scroll down, you will see 1) another video of it, and 2) Vecchione's hot take on it -- he says it's Archi, and to your point, not well (..."looks dead" is the exact quote. I wonder where @OB is on this?
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Architeuthis, based on all info this clip gives. I seem to recall footage like this from an A. Dux specimen that eventually ended up dead along a jetty, I can do a quick scan on youtube to see whether or not I might retrieve it
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Tweet says this footage comes from inome harbour, Izumo, haven’t located useful additional info, yet.
Giant Squid falls out of the mouth of a sperm whale!
Possible contender for (one of the) largest A. dux, so far; do we need to reconsider maximum ML?
I just recently came across this paper from 2018, in which the upper limit of estimated ML of a specimen exceeds 3 meters. The hitherto accepted maximum is around 2.25 meters (CO Kat and Steve), so there's a chance of that figure having to be reconsidered. The photographs do suggest great size...
