Experts found several characteristics which they say they have never encountered before - including long, thin flaps of muscle attached to each of the squid's eight arms.
Even if the scientists had wanted to, they could not have made a feast of the mysterious squid.
After more than a decade of going out to sea in search of the giant squid, he relished the moment he came face-to-face with it.
There are dozens of species of large squid in the world's oceans, but the giant squid is by far the largest.
" Or "consider the fabled giant squid with eyes the size of soccer balls and trailing tentacles that can reach lengths of 60 feet.... No person as far as we know has ever seen a giant squid alive.
Japanese zoologist Tsunemi Kubodera, who was on board the submersible at the time of the encounter, was able to lure the giant squid with a one-meter (three-foot) -long diamond squid.
From time to time, the parents dispatched their children to fetch bags of tiny shellfish, spatchcocked squid from the grill, malodorous 'stinky tofu'.
The hard beaks of giant squid, a main source of food for sperm whales, have often been found inside lumps of ambergris.
What remains to be seen is whether this deal will put a halo over the dreaded squid or horns on the beloved Oracle of Omaha.
Jane Hutt AM made a statement in the chamber on the final release of the Supplier Qualification Information Database (SQuID).
And then there's "Rocket Science, " another wry, idiosyncratic teen-angst comedy in the indie mold of "Napoleon Dynamite, " "Rushmore" and "The Squid and the Whale" (to name but three).
Like much of the marine life in Japan, firefly squid are commercially fished and eaten as a seasonal delicacy.
Why not change the avatar to a picture of a squid for one day, why not tweet a link to an old Muppet Show clip.
The mammals have been boosted by the presence of abundant prey - humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas), which themselves seem to be thriving in what are generally over-fished waters.
Once found mainly in the north east Atlantic, in recent years the fish have tended to head north west towards Iceland and the Faroe Isles following their prey of squid and crustaceans.
Mario, now a plumber, and joined by a lanky brother named Luigi, bounced through the Mushroom Kingdom, dodging or bopping enemies in the form of turtles, beetles, and squid, while seeking out magic mushrooms, coins, and hidden stars.
The effect, reported in Science, is similar to the action of muscles found in elephant trunks and squid tentacles.
Next they hop on a traditional junk for a sail across Halong Bay, whose waters teem with prawns, oysters, squid and snapper that are staples of the local cuisine.
Some of the money obtained by selling licences to catch these squid has found its way back to researchers who are studying the squids' life cycles, so as to exploit them efficiently without exterminating them.
Ginkgo, inspired by the do-it-yourself ethos of Squid Labs' Saul Griffith, will sell these standardized genetic parts dried onto sheets of paper or in vials to big companies that want to make new drugs, plastics and petroleum replacements.
At a depth of 640 meters (2, 100 feet), the giant squid appeared and wrapped its arms around the bait, eating it for over 20 minutes before letting go.
Professor Hal Whitehead, a researcher from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, who studies whales, was impressed by the data, but said the suggestion that whales might be herding a ball of squid may be a little "far-fetched".
Other members of the team also bring experience from Gilt Group and digital media company Turbo Squid.
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Last year Simms' friend Captain Philip Ruhle Jr. went down with his 80-foot squid ship in a storm roughly 40 miles off the coast of New Jersey.
Pick up some gorgeously packaged petits fours, crunchy rice crackers or dried shredded squid for the folks at home, and pick up a couple of onigiri (rice balls) for an in-flight snack.
The squid in the grilled-calamari salad, though bearing the browned marks of grilling, has none of the charcoal richness you might expect indeed, it has almost no flavor at all.
So perhaps, after over 10 years of some kind of relationship I've built with the giant squids, I feel, perhaps, it was the squid that came to see me.
The squid, which was inexplicably missing its two longest tentacles, was spotted in waters east of Chichi Island about 1, 000 kilometers (600 miles) south of Tokyo, NHK said.
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