Architeuthis Makes Film Debut
The giant squid or architeuthis is a rare creature indeed. For many years it seemed the stuff of legends. It lives in ocean depths thousands of feet deep. Many marine biologists believed that the rare beast would never be observed in the wild. Though a few have died in fishing nets or washed ashore, none had been observed alive until now. A team of Japanese scientists headed by Tsunemi Kubodera had been working on the project for 3 years when…