PEOPLE have seen more of Mars than of one of the most elusive creatures on Earth -- the giant squid. But two researchers captured the creature on film in the ocean for the first time.
Until Japanese scientists snapped more than 500 photos of a 25-foot-long giant squid off the Ogasawara Islands, sightings of this calamari on steroids have been limited to dead or dying specimens on beaches or in nets. A 60-foot-long carcass washed up in Tasmania in 2002.
