Vicki Is Licking Her Lips

My girlfriend, she loves the calamari. I hope she's getting a bib ready:

Like something straight out of a Jules Verne novel, an enormous tentacled creature looms out of the inky blackness of the deep Pacific waters.

But this isn't science fiction. A set of extraordinary images captured by Japanese scientists marks the first-ever record of a live giant squid (Architeuthis) in the wild.

The animal—which measures roughly 25 feet (8 meters) long—was photographed 2,950 feet (900 meters) beneath the North Pacific Ocean. Japanese scientists attracted the squid toward cameras attached to a baited fishing line.

That was the secret? We've been trying to get a live shot of these things since forever, and the secret was combining worms and a betamax camcorder? Damn... I've got to get a research grant.