Editing Giant squid (section)

==== First observations in the wild ====
The first photographs of a live giant squid in its natural habitat were taken on 30 September 2004, by [[Tsunemi Kubodera]] ([[National Science Museum of Japan]]) and [[Kyoichi Mori]] ([[Ogasawara Whale Watching Association]]).<ref name=first/> Their teams had worked together for nearly two years to accomplish this. They used a five-ton fishing boat and only two crew members. The images were created on their third trip to a known [[sperm whale]] hunting ground {{convert|970|km|-2|abbr=on}} south of Tokyo, where they had dropped a {{Convert|900|m|abbr=on}} line baited with squid and shrimp. The line also held a camera and a flash. After over twenty tries that day, an {{convert|8|m|abbr=on}} giant squid attacked the lure and snagged its [[tentacle]]. The camera took over 500 photos before the squid managed to break free after four hours. The squid's {{convert|5.5|m|abbr=on}} tentacle remained attached to the lure. Later [[DNA]] tests confirmed the animal as a giant squid.<ref name=first />

[[Image:Giantsquidphoto2.png|thumb|left|One of the series of images of a live giant squid taken by Kubodera and Mori in 2004]]

On 27 September 2005, Kubodera and Mori released the photographs to the world. The photo sequence, taken at a depth of {{convert|900|m}} off Japan's [[Bonin Islands|Ogasawara Islands]], shows the squid homing in on the baited line and enveloping it in "a ball of tentacles". The researchers were able to locate the likely general location of giant squid by closely tailing the movements of sperm whales. According to Kubodera, "we knew that they fed on the squid, and we knew when and how deep they dived, so we used them to lead us to the squid". Kubodera and Mori reported their observations in the journal ''[[Proceedings of the Royal Society]]''.<ref name=first />

Among other things, the observations demonstrate actual hunting behaviors of adult ''Architeuthis'', a subject on which there had been much speculation. The photographs showed an aggressive hunting pattern by the baited squid, leading to it impaling a tentacle on the bait ball's hooks. This may disprove the theory that the giant squid is a drifter which eats whatever floats by, rarely moving so as to conserve energy. The observations suggest that the species has a much more aggressive feeding technique.

===== First video of live adult in natural habitat =====<!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:Live giant squid video December 4 2006.jpg|thumb|A still image from the first video of a live adult giant squid, showing the intact reddish skin of this species, which is almost always damaged in stranded or trawl caught specimens. The animal can be seen holding onto the smaller squid which was initially caught on the line.<ref name=video />{{ifdc|1=Live giant squid video 4 December 2006.jpg|log=2009 April 12}}]] -->
In November 2006, American explorer and [[Underwater diving|diver]] [[Scott Cassell]] led an expedition to the [[Gulf of California]] with the aim of filming a giant squid in its natural habitat. The team employed a novel filming method: using a [[Humboldt squid]] carrying a specially designed camera clipped to its fin. The camera-bearing squid caught on film what was claimed to be a giant squid, with an estimated length of {{convert|40|ft}}, engaging in predatory behavior.<ref name="Board">{{cite web |url=http://www.underseavoyagerproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55&Itemid=69 |title=Board of Directors |publisher=Undersea Voyager Project |year=2010 |access-date=26 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111224011837/http://www.underseavoyagerproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55&Itemid=69 |archive-date=24 December 2011}}</ref><ref name="EG">{{cite web |url=http://www.exploregreen.com/bios/Scott%20Cassell%20-%20EG%20Bio.pdf |title=Scott Cassell |department=Biography |publisher=Explore Green |access-date=26 November 2012 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233138/http://www.exploregreen.com/bios/Scott%20Cassell%20-%20EG%20Bio.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The footage aired a year later on a [[History (U.S. TV network)|History Channel]] program, ''[[MonsterQuest#Season one (2007–2008)|MonsterQuest: Giant Squid Found]]''.<ref name="EG" /> Cassell subsequently distanced himself from this documentary, claiming that it contained multiple factual and scientific errors.<ref name="ScubaBoard">{{cite web |url=http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/marine-life-ecosystems/210712-monster-quest-giant-squid-found-scott-cassells-blog.html |title=Monster Quest: The Giant Squid – found |series=Scott Cassell's Blog |last=Cassell |first=Scott |author-link=Scott Cassell |date=20 November 2007 |publisher=ScubaBoard.com |access-date=26 November 2012 |archive-date=7 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121207193650/http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/marine-life-ecosystems/210712-monster-quest-giant-squid-found-scott-cassells-blog.html |url-status=live }}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=July 2024}}

In July 2012, a crew from television networks [[NHK]] and [[Discovery Channel]] captured what was described as "the first-ever footage of a live giant squid in its natural habitat".<ref name="NHK-press-release2">{{cite news |date=9 January 2013 |title=The Giant Squid, Captured on Camera in its Natural Habitat for the First Time Ever! Revealed on NHK and Discovery Channel |work=NHK |url=http://www.nhk.or.jp/pr/english/press/pdf/20130109.pdf |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004233759/http://www.nhk.or.jp/pr/english/press/pdf/20130109.pdf |archivedate=4 October 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=7 January 2013 |title=Giant squid filmed in Pacific depths: Japan scientists |agency=Agence France-Presse |url=http://ph.news.yahoo.com/giant-squid-filmed-pacific-depths-japan-scientists-060634721.html |access-date=31 July 2013 |archive-date=11 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130111101701/http://ph.news.yahoo.com/giant-squid-filmed-pacific-depths-japan-scientists-060634721.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The footage was revealed on a [[NHK Special]] on 13 January 2013,<ref>{{cite web |title=Giant Creature |url=http://www.nhk.or.jp/ocean/giantcreature/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130109094955/http://www.nhk.or.jp/ocean/giantcreature/ |archivedate=9 January 2013 |accessdate=7 January 2013 |work=NHK Ocean and Planet |publisher=[[NHK]] |language=Japanese |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="oricon">{{cite news |date=6 January 2013 |script-title=ja:史上初の快挙 深海で泳ぐダイオウイカを世界初放送 |language=Japanese |trans-title=The first admirable act: The first broadcast of the giant squid which swims in the deep sea |publisher=Oricon |url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/movie/2020338/full/ |accessdate=8 January 2013 |archive-date=8 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130108090015/http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/movie/2020338/full/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and was shown on Discovery Channel's show ''Monster Squid: The Giant Is Real'' on 27 January 2013,<ref name="oricon" /><ref>{{cite web |last=Robey |first=Jason |date=12 October 2012 |title=Giant Squid Captured on Video for First Time |url=http://dsc.discovery.com/show-news/giant-squid-captured-on-video-for-first-time.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121212150837/http://dsc.discovery.com/show-news/giant-squid-captured-on-video-for-first-time.html |archivedate=12 December 2012 |publisher=Discovery |url-status=dead}}</ref> and on ''Giant Squid: Filming the Impossible – Natural World Special'' on [[BBC Two]].<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0377t15 ''Giant Squid: Filming the Impossible – Natural World Special''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130723214212/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0377t15 |date=23 July 2013 }}. BBC.</ref> To capture the footage the team aboard OceanX's vessel [[MV Alucia]] traveled to the Ogasawara Islands, south of Tokyo and utilized the ship's crewed submersibles.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-05-12 |title=Search for the Giant Squid |url=http://www.oceanx.org/search-for-the-giant-squid/ |access-date=2019-04-01 |website=OceanX}}</ref> The squid was about {{convert|3|m|abbr=on}} long and was missing its feeding tentacles, likely from a failed attack by a [[sperm whale]]. It was drawn into viewing range by both artificial [[bioluminescence]] created to mimic panicking [[Atolla jellyfish]] and by using a ''[[Thysanoteuthis rhombus]]'' (diamond squid) as bait. The giant squid was filmed feeding for about 23 minutes by [[Tsunemi Kubodera]] until it departed.<ref>''Monster Squid: The Giant Is Real''. Discovery Channel.</ref> The technique of using unobtrusive viewing and bioluminescence luring of the squid with quiet unobtrusive platforms was described by [[Edith Widder]], a member of the expedition.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Transcript of "How we found the giant squid" |date=5 March 2013 |url=http://www.ted.com/talks/edith_widder_how_we_found_the_giant_squid/transcript |accessdate=2015-12-13 |archive-date=5 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170105204044/http://www.ted.com/talks/edith_widder_how_we_found_the_giant_squid/transcript |url-status=live }}</ref>

===== Second video of giant squid in natural habitat =====
On 19&nbsp;June 2019, in an expedition run by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Association ([[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|NOAA]]),<ref>{{cite web |url=https://research.noaa.gov/article/ArtMID/587/ArticleID/2468/NOAA-Funded-Expedition-Captures-Rare-Footage-of-Giant-Squid-in-the-Gulf-of-Mexico |title=NOAA-funded expedition captures rare footage of Giant Squid in the Gulf of Mexico |website=NOAA Research|access-date=2019-06-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627194025/https://research.noaa.gov/article/ArtMID/587/ArticleID/2468/NOAA-Funded-Expedition-Captures-Rare-Footage-of-Giant-Squid-in-the-Gulf-of-Mexico |archive-date=2019-06-27}}</ref> known as the Journey to Midnight, biologists [[Nathan J. Robinson (biologist)|Nathan J. Robinson]] and [[Edith Widder]] captured a video of a juvenile giant squid at a depth of 759&nbsp;meters (2,490&nbsp;feet) in the Gulf of Mexico. Michael Vecchione, a NOAA Fisheries zoologist, confirmed that the captured footage was that of the genus ''Architeuthis'', and that the individual filmed measured at somewhere between {{convert|10|and|12|ft|m|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jarvis |first=Brooke |date=2019-06-21 |title=Giant Squid, phantom of the deep, reappears on video|newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/science/giant-squid-cephalopod-video.html |access-date=2019-06-22 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=21 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621131800/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/science/giant-squid-cephalopod-video.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

===== Other sightings =====
{{Main|List of giant squid specimens and sightings (2001–2014)#Quest for a live animal|List of giant squid specimens and sightings (2015–present)}}
Videos of live giant squids have been occasionally captured near the surface since the 2012 sighting, with one of these aforementioned individuals being guided back into the open ocean after appearing in Toyama Harbor on 24 December 2015. The majority of these sightings were of sick or dying individuals that had come up to the surface.<ref name="video">{{cite news |date=22 December 2006 |title=Giant squid caught on video by Japanese scientists |work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUST14899720061222 |access-date=2 July 2017 |archive-date=8 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308144758/https://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUST14899720061222 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="NHK-press-release">{{cite news |date=9 January 2013 |title=The Giant Squid, captured on camera in its natural habitat for the first time ever! Revealed on NHK and the Discovery Channel |publisher=NHK |url=http://www.nhk.or.jp/pr/english/press/pdf/20130109.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004233759/http://www.nhk.or.jp/pr/english/press/pdf/20130109.pdf |archive-date=4 October 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Giant Squid visits harbor in Japan |url=http://news.discovery.com/animals/giant-squid-visits-harbor-in-japan-151228.htm |department=News |magazine=Discovery |access-date=28 December 2015 |archive-date=31 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151231022652/http://news.discovery.com/animals/giant-squid-visits-harbor-in-japan-151228.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=29 December 2015 |title=Rare Giant Squid caught on film in Japan |url=https://www.yahoo.com/travel/amazing-rare-giant-squid-caught-on-film-in-japan-203905325.html |access-date=30 December 2015 |series=Animals Amazing! |publisher=Yahoo! Travel |archive-date=1 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101115126/https://www.yahoo.com/travel/amazing-rare-giant-squid-caught-on-film-in-japan-203905325.html |url-status=live }}</ref>