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giant squid stars in this still image taken from the footage Edie Widder shot.
It's the first-ever video of these giant squids, and it'll debut in a Discovery Channel documentary airing in late January.
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请注意 电影中的那句话要写
For thousands of years, sailors told stories of giant squid. In myth and cinema, it was the most terrible of sea monsters with a terrifying moniker of kraken.
Release the kraken.
"Clash of the Titans." But outside of mythology, the giant squid is very real, although until recently, we'd only seen them in still photographs. After decades of searching the seas, scientists have captured the first video of a live giant squid thousands of feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
Edie Widder is the ocean researcher who took the footage. Welcome. And, Edie, congratulations.
Thank you, Jacki. It's a long time coming.
These images are really fascinating, and the camera that took the pictures was your brain child. How did you attract the squid towards the camera?
I had been wanting for a long time to explore the ocean in a different way because I've always been concerned about how much stuff we must be scaring away with bright, noisy submersibles. Any animal with any sense is going to get away from that. So I wanted to develop a stealthy system.
And besides having a stealthy camera, I wanted to not just put down bait the way normally people do to attract animals, because dead bait is just gonna attract scavengers. And so I wanted to attract active predators. And so I developed an optical lure that imitates a particular type of bioluminescent display that I thought should be attractive to large predators. | 
发表于 2016-8-2 11:35:48