The footage will be part of a Discovery Channel show, Monster Squid: The Giant Is Real, which will air Jan. 27 as the season finale of Curiosity.

Discovery News announced the find last month:

With razor-toothed suckers and eyes the size of dinner plates, tales of this creature have been around since ancient times. The Norse legend of the sea monster the Kraken, and the Scylla from Greek mythology, might have derived from the elusive giant squid.

This massive predator has always been shrouded in secrecy, and every attempt to capture a live giant squid on camera in its natural habitat has failed. Until now.

In 2006, Kubodera said, he filmed what he claimed was the first live video footage of a giant squid as it was hooked and brought aboard his ship.

Known to scientists as Architeuthis, the giants eat other types of squid and grenadier, a deep-sea fish, and can grow to more than 30 feet long and weigh 450 pounds.

So did they actually get one on film?

Yes

This is why the only thing I will swim in is a pool. **** a pond, lake, sea, ocean, or river.

Beautiful.

But they don't bite or anything

I love seeing things like these. Iwish I could swim with it.

Fascinating!

giant squids don't swim in shallow oceans... the ignorance

mmm;; I love sea food. I bet that squid is delicious

Almost looks fake.

This isnt gonna end up being like that mermaid discovery "documentary" is it?

I think it's a fake model on what it looks like.

The shade is, they only know 10 percent about the ocean.

The Little Mermaid could be under there for all we know.

Who has played wind waker? This thing reminds me of those giant squids. horrifying

It's beautiful