giant squids for many years we've known that the mythical monster the Kraken was in fact based off sightings of giant squid but despite chuckling at those superstitious sailors were not actually much more knowledgeable about the sea giants today it wasn't until 2004 that we actually got the first photographic evidence of one in the wild it was an 8 meter beast swimming almost a kilometer down since then we have filmed just a handful of examples of giant squid and they're usually between 3 & 4 meters long one was found on Christmas Eve 2015 minion of day on Japan's northern coast after a week a diver guided it back out into the open ocean its new year's resolution with Sofia compass
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