The first video footage of an adult giant squid in the wild was captured in 2012 near Chichi Island in the North Pacific Ocean. Members of the staff from Japan’s National Science Museum followed the animal to a depth of about 900 meters in a submersible. The giant squid is notoriously elusive in the wild, and until 2001 much of what was known about the giant squid came from postmortem examinations of specimens floating at sea or washed onto beaches.
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