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Terrifying footage shows giant squid the size of a car caught on camera in US waters for first time @ 2019-06-24T20: 返回 新闻热点
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BUT IN 2004, RESEARCHERS IN JAPAN TOOK THE FIRST IMAGES EVER OF A LIVE GIANT SQUID. AND IN LATE 2006, SCIENTISTS WITH JAPAN’S NATIONAL SCIENCE MUSEUM CAUGHT AND BROUGHT TO THE SURFACE A LIVE 24-FOOT FEMALE GIANT SQUID. IN 2012, A RESEARCH TEAM COLLABORATING WITH THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL SPOTTED ANOTHER GIANT SQUID AND FILMED IT IN ITS NATURAL HABITAT THOUSANDS OF FEET BENEATH THE SURFACE. NOW, SCIENTISTS HAVE FILMED THE ELUSIVE GIANT SQUID — AND IN AMERICA’S “BACKYARD,” TOO.
A GROUP OF RESEARCHERS FUNDED BY THE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION"S OFFICE OF OCEAN EXPLORATION AND RESEARCH SHOT THE VIDEO EARLIER THIS WEEK, OF A GIANT SQUID ESTIMATED TO BE AS LONG AT LEAST 10 TO 12 FEET. THE DEEP-SEA DEVICE WAS FILMING IN THE GULF OF MEXICO AT A DEPTH OF 759 METERS (2,490 FEET).
DR. WIDDER, THE FOUNDER OF THE OCEAN RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION, WAS PART OF THE TEAM OF SCIENTISTS THAT IN 2012 RECORDED THE FIRST VIDEO OF A GIANT SQUID SWIMMING IN ITS NATURAL HABITAT, OFF JAPAN’S OGASAWARA ARCHIPELAGO. FOR THAT EXPEDITION, SHE DEVELOPED A NEW CAMERA SYSTEM CALLED MEDUSA. IT EMPLOYS RED LIGHT, WHICH MOST SEA CREATURES CAN’T SEE, AND, AT THE END OF A MILELONG PLASTIC LINE, AN OPTICAL LURE IN THE FORM OF A RING OF LED LIGHTS THAT RESEMBLES A BIOLUMINESCENT JELLYFISH.
A TEAM OF SCIENTISTS DEPLOYED A CAMERA INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN TO CATCH A RARE GLIMPSE OF A GIANT SQUID.
AS EUROPE GETS SERIOUS ABOUT WOMEN"S FOOTBALL, THE MATILDAS" HEARTBREAKING LOSS TO NORWAY SHOULD ACT AS A CATALYST FOR AUSTRALIA TO TAKE STOCK OF ITS INVESTMENT IN WOMEN"S FOOTBALL.
IN THE DARK OCEANS, SEA CREATURES WILL NATURALLY CREATE THEIR OWN RADIANT LIGHT, OR BIOLUMINESCENCE, TO FEND OFF PREDATORS. THE PUFF OF LIGHT COULD BE A DISTRACTION, ALLOWING THE SHRIMP TIME TO ESCAPE, EXPLAINED ROBINSON. OR, IT COULD BE A "BURGLAR ALARM," ALERTING EVEN BIGGER PREDATORS TO COME NEAR, AND THEN STARTLING THE INITIAL PREDATOR AWAY.
"WE NOW GAZED AT THE MOST WONDROUS PHENOMENON WHICH THE SECRET SEAS HAVE HITHERTO REVEALED TO MANKIND. A VAST PULPY MASS, FURLONGS IN LENGTH AND BREADTH, OF A GLANCING CREAM-COLOUR, LAY FLOATING ON THE WATER, INNUMERABLE LONG ARMS RADIATING FROM ITS CENTRE, AND CURLING AND TWISTING LIKE A NEST OF ANACONDAS, AS IF BLINDLY TO CATCH AT ANY HAPLESS OBJECT WITHIN REACH. NO PERCEPTIBLE FACE OR FRONT DID IT HAVE; NO CONCEIVABLE TOKEN OF EITHER SENSATION OR INSTINCT; BUT UNDULATED THERE ON THE BILLOWS, AN UNEARTHLY, FORMLESS, CHANCE-LIKE APPARITION OF LIFE.
IN A POST ON NOAA'S OCEAN EXPLORER BLOG, JOHNSEN AND WIDDER DESCRIBED THE TEAM'S EXCITEMENT AT FINDING AND HELPING TO DEMYSTIFY A MYTHICAL BEAST OF THE DEEP. "MOST IMPORTANTLY, WE DID NOT FIND A MONSTER," THEY WROTE. "THE GIANT SQUID IS LARGE AND CERTAINLY UNUSUAL FROM OUR HUMAN PERSPECTIVE, BUT IF THE VIDEO SHOWS ANYTHING OF THE ANIMAL'S CHARACTER, IT SHOWS AN ANIMAL SURPRISED BY ITS MISTAKE, BACKING OFF AFTER STRIKING AT SOMETHING THAT AT FIRST MUST HAVE SEEMED APPEALING BUT WAS OBVIOUSLY NOT FOOD."
THE U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY JUST RELAXED AN OBAMA-ERA CLIMATE RULE, TO THE POTENTIAL BENEFIT OF THE COAL INDUSTRY (THE WASHINGTON POST, PACIFIC STANDARD).

 

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