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Monster story: squid vid

Harry Fuller Executive editor, CNET News.com
Harry Fuller escaped from television work to be executive editor at CNET News.com.
Harry Fuller

The Japanese are BIG on big creatures. But this is not an ordinary Godzilla. This time Reuters reports Japanese scientists have video of a true monster of the deep.

That's right, the same folks who brought you the first still pictures fourteen months ago, have now topped that. It's the first known video of a giant squid. This little tyke was only a few meters long but his grand-parents hang out in the ocean depths waving tentacles up to seventy-five feet in length. And with suckers that could pull the screen off an iPod. What a monster way to end the year!