Sea monster caught on camera

It sounded at first like : a voracious 25-foot creature snaring its prey with 18-foot tentacles nearly 3,000 feet deep in the Pacific Ocean. But the massive animal turned out to be very real, as the photographs show in this National Geographic posting.

Using special deep-sea photography and video technologies, Japanese scientists captured the first photos of a live giant squid in the wild, which were released this week.