World's Biggest Squid Ever Caught

Largest Squid Ever Captured Alive - Massive Colossal Squid, 1st full specimen & biggest discovered in the world. The largest and perhaps one of the rarest squid in the world is the colossal squid. We're going to check out footage of the biggest one ever caught and learn exactly what makes them so unique. The colossal squid was first discovered in 1925 when fisherman removed its head and arms from inside the stomach of a sperm whale. Since then only 8 colossal squids have been found. 6 of which were inside whales, all of them... females as a male specimen has never been seen. The most recent finding and biggest squid ever caught was in 2007 and measured at 33 feet long. It was caught by accident as it attacked a big toothfish, Patagonian toothfish, that was already hooked on a fisherman's line. Antartica's Ross Sea The monster squid refused to let go of it's meal as it took the fishermen over 2 hours to bring onto the boat. This colossal squid is currently on display at a national museum in New Zealand. Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni Scientific Name It's the largest known invertebrate in the world as scientists estimate these squids to grow up to 46 feet in length. They have 3 hearts, bleed blue blood and have the largest eyes of any living creature in the world. This deep sea monster has 8 different sized arms and 2 tentacles like most squid, however, they are the only species with rotating hooks which are used to grab and hold onto their prey All squid have an Ink Sac which they use to squirt into the water producing a large dark cloud to help them escape from predators. In the case of the colossal squid, no one has ever seen what it's ink looks like, so we can't be sure how the squid uses it. Since there is no light in the deep sea, a dark ink would be useless, therefore some believe that the colossal squid may produce a luminescent colored ink. Because they live deep with in the ocean depths in freezing Antarctic waters and only a few have ever been caught, no one truly knows just how large this squid actually grows as there is still a lot to learn about this mysterious deep sea creature. Colossal Squid illustration at (1:30) was made by Citron Citron / CC-BY-SA-3.0 on wikipedia. Sony's Action Cam channel http://bit.ly/1iAc5Zy Learn more about the Colossal Squid squid.tepapa.govt.nz/anatomy Let's Connect -- http://www.epicadamwildlife.com/ -- http://www.facebook.com/epicadamwildlife -- http://www.twitter.com/epicwildlife -- http://gplus.to/epicwildlife Note: This is a sponsored video

Comments

1. Am I the only one who just wants to see that blue blood?
2. what I don't understand is why would kill it instead of tracking it
3. that video is fake
4. "A Giant Rare squid lets kill it"
5. So 33 feet is how much?
6. How much did the boat cost, the crew, cameras, etc...
7. WIERDo
8. Hahahahha Yeaaahhh!!!!!
9. would have watched..turned off at the sponsors.
10. You don't seem like a very credible person...
11. I don't think it would have a luminescent ink because it is a deep ocean dweller like he said, a black ink would be useless, and so would a luminescent one, most marine life that lives in the depths doesn't rely on vision at all, so is safer to assume it either has ink it doesn't use, it doeskin have ink at all or that the ink is a toxin or other harmful material. Also unless the ink he is thinking of is 'bio'-luminescent then it would need light to reflect off of it in order to be seen...
12. Okay, someone here is gonna have a very bad night :S
13. I'll give you some fun facts about the KRAKEN family member number 1 the kraken haves 3 hearts
14. caught ALIVE but because humans are assholes, they kill it just to put it on display?
15. Have you ever gotten through a sentence without pausing for breath?
16. theyre so big, yet we see so few of em. very cool
    
    the kraken is real
17. circulation
18. On kids shows they say the GIANT SQUID is the biggest squid
19. You talk like there is a comma after every 3 words
20. I live in New Zealand I saw the collosal squid in person