REUTERS/Eriko Sugita
Japanese researcher Dr Tsunemi Kubodera smiles as he shows a giant squid on display at the National Science museum in Tokyo September 28, 2005, the same size as the giant eight-metre (26-foot) Architeuthis he has captured in the wild for the first time on camera, in Tokyo September 28, 2005. The images, taken in the deep sea at 900 meters (about 3,000 ft) off Japan's Ogasawara islands September 30, 2004, are appearing in the journal Proceedings B of the Royal Society this week.