41.   Expedition seeks first film of giant squid in the sea.

42.   Expedition seeks first film of giant squid.

43.   Giant squids have washed up there, and near Wellington, across the strait from Whekenui.

44.   Local speculation included that it was a giant squid, or that a new sea creature had been found.

45.   No one has ever seen a giant squid alive, even though the behemoth is woven into centuries of myth and literature.

46.   Nobody has ever seen a giant squid alive.

47.   Nobody has ever seen a living giant squid.

48.   Researchers found packages of sperm embedded in two arms of a female giant squid captured off southern Australia.

49.   Scientists say even a single minute of video footage of a giant squid would be one of the great feats of marine exploration this century.

50.   The giant squid is the only animal that will fight the sperm whale.