This is actually really significant. We have heard of giant squid attacking boats and all, and people have seen them, and we have found dead ones. But no one has ever been able to photograph or video tape one alive. Apparently this set of photo's has changed the current thinking on them. It turns out that they are a very lethal predator, and they move differently than we thought.
The images are set to change ideas about the giant squid’s predatory techniques. Despite its ferocious reputation in myth, experts had thought that A. dux was a sluggish predator that dangled its two long feeding tentacles like fishing rods to snare passing prey.
“But the pictures show an animal that’s more like a python striking a rat,” points out Norman.
Anyway, pretty cool! Here is another story from NewScientist.com
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