Descend deep into the dark, cold Southern Ocean and check out the mysterious world of the colossal squid.
The top of the ocean is light and warm, and abundant with life. But if you head down a kilometre or more, you'd be in the dark, cold ocean deep. More people have been into space than have gone down deep below the ocean surface, yet it's the largest habitat available for life on Earth.
The colossal squid, the most massive invertebrate on the planet, makes its home in these cold depths of the Southern Ocean.
You can view this video in 3D at the Colossal Squid exhibition in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
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Colossal squids are so weird. I really wish there was more footage of them because they are so awesome
Yeah
Yea this animal is fascinating. We can only hope one day some boat will accidentally pull one up
That's what the story in this video is showing. A fishing boat pulled one up
@@96_stars22 many giant squids have been spotted in many coasts in counties like Japan and Mexico but theose were sick, what you mean is a giant squid in its natural habitat and healthy
@@franzperales5173 a giant squid is not the same as a colossal squid
As both an aspiring 3d modeler/animator and someone interested in undersea life, I deeply enjoyed this.
Haha...... DEEP-ly!!!!!!
@@Deutalios818 haha 6 years ago haha
Deep
Agree, I hope they make a HD remaster of this.
They'll definitely did a good job. Very accurate to the actual creatures.
Some animals don't get much attention including the Colossal Squid but the way this animal is portrayed in this great animation is amazing.
They cant, there is no footage of a collossal squid alive in its habitat.
They get plenty of attention, just that we haven't seen them alive so we can only speculate.
@@heuvelke1065hell there’s no video of a live colossal squid
Beautiful video. The Sperm Whale and the Colossal Squid, two of the most magnificent creatures ever to live on Earth, and epic is their battle to survive.
+Alexandre Araujo Andrade da Silva Against the Japanese?
🐋vs🦑
The what?
It's giant squids that battle sperm whales.
@@dihainthegreat its both of them, they fight giant and colossal squids they don’t just fight 1 specific one
thats going to be a fun surprise for the fishermen
it was. The squid was dead when is came to the surface. it now resides at Te Papa museum in Wellington New Zealand. This is a 3D short film they show there.
What Rrobcher said. The Colossal squid was indeed alive when on the surface, but it expired shortly after, probably because of having been brought up from great depth.
@@Gunners_Mate_Guns aw man :(
That moment when you search for colossal squid and only find giant squid videos -_-
Ikr
Actually this is about colossal squid not giant squid :/
Yep...
@DJ SQUISHEE I think he was just stating it was hard to find videos of colossal squid, not that this was about giant squid.
they`re rare creatures, thats why there is little evidence or footage of them
I hope we'll be able to record a live colossal squid in its natural habitat. That's never been done before, unlike with the giant squid.
Yes, as colossal squid are more rare than giant squid.
Even giant squid live native habitat footage is extremely rare with less than 5 examples yet recorded.
I don’t it would happen anytime soon, their climate is to extreme for research vessels
So deep in the sea, there would be almost no light to capture a footage. I think these ones even below the twilight zone, making it pitch black. Also, night vision googles can only work when there’s another spectrum of light, which would share the same fate as visible light spectrum I suppose
Sperm Whale: Oh hello there! I see you got my meal for me. THANKS!
LOL!
Sperms whales love to eat giant squid
General Kenobi
The Sperm Whale loves his squid in all shapes and sizes.
Sperm whale: uhh thanks for the meal I was about to eat you but not anymore but thanks Squid: (dose not under stand english
I dont think people realize the scarcity out of its beauty, and how scary it is let alone... This is a 30-40+ foot tadpole with a beak that can rip flesh with ease, has giant tentacles and spidey senses
wtf is foot what kind of measurement is that
@@floof6896 you're American aren't you?
@@dagakotowaru6118 nah i use common sense (im filipino)
That really was a beautiful video, wonderfully crafted. Haunting and creepy in parts but the best images we will probably ever see of a colossal squid in it's natural habitat doing its thing
Its not real footage tho
@@zion2794 the guy means that this is closest we will ever see of a colossal squid
NO WE GOT SOME FOOTAGE FOR REAL!!
There is actual footage of a 500kg colossal squid being captured in the southern ocean. Te papa have the footage and the actual squid. This crappy animation is a disgrace
@@spacesinga2764 no they have actual footage, and the bloody squid!
it's scary as shit and majestic at the same time ._.
Squids are pretty majestic, no?
Yep
Supreme Super Hypertoasters I know you made this reply a year ago. But you knew that at the time of you replying the comment was 5 years old?
@@WUZ.r and you know you replied to a comment 2 years ago?
@@supremesuperhypertoasters6218 The kraken is majestic
1:27 that is cute with the music
LOL 😆
Emerald2337Blues yea...ik the eyeball of that weird creature of the colossal squid
I like how it shows the food chain lanterfish->toothfish->colossal squid->sperm whale->human then it shows a lanternfish eating a baby colossal squid to complete the food cycle.
Yep... unfortunately... Us at the top 🙄
@Malicious Troll i forgot what this while comment was about 🤣🤣
So if I eat you, you are okay with that? It's the food chain.
@@DrTiggy666 Let me guess, you're 'murican?
Ding dong so long they call it long schlong females squid dies after giving birth and it may hurt their body’s due to the males arm has spikes
Sperm whale: I eat squids! The colosal squid: you’ve yeed your last haw
Oh how about 50 colossal squid versus 25 megalodon
samooh ali I agree
Hey the best Santa monster
@@siswoyoyoso5502 no I am the king of the space
Megladon because sperm whales still eat colossal squids
imagine snorkeling and that shit pops up out of nowhere
*Thalassophobia intenseifies*
Fucking snatches you
4:01 scared the shiut out of me!
Fantastic. The gradations in the water are probably the limitations of youtube compression. Some stuff gets beat up, other stuff doesn't. I wonder about uploading my old animations again to see if things have improved.
2:52 that one friend that always steals your food
Colossal squid: That was supposed to be my breakfast
Nah he meant to go for the Squid, they love eating Colossal Squid for breakfast
omg.. this brings back so many nostalgic memories from going to te papa when I was little .. too bad they removed the 3d film exhibit
THANKYOU!!! That was so well put together. It's the best of anything ever tried on the subject. The amazon and respected Collossal Squid!!
I don't know if you live in New Zealand, but in the Te Papa museum, you can see the Collosal Squid this was based off of. :)
this was my childhood when I watched it… good memories
Looks like a pair of headlights
Saw this when it first came out at Te Papa. Being right up close to the screen with the 3D glasses when it grabs the fish is no joke...
I love Colossal Squid 🦑
Me too
Video explaining the difference between colossal squid and giant squid kzhead.info/sun/gquQd6yjmGSnmHA/bejne.html
@Is this a Woomy the colossal squid is bigger and longer Don't forget to watch the video
Same.
Me too
Everybody gangsta till u hear tick tick tick tick tick tick
As a squid lover, i enjoyed this.
I love how most story’s depict them as a thin but long and large squid, when really there just a jacked up version of the giant squid.
Wow i Remember Watching This Animation on YT when i was a Kid… The Memories are Real !
Suddenly living in the middle of a desert doesn't seem so bad
unless if it’s a giant sandworm like from dune.
WOW......BEAUTIFUL ANIMATION!!!!!!!!!!11
and music too!!
Amberlewis Gaming ya
In most departments yes
some of the shots they captured are amazing
Fantastic presentation.👍
Wonderful. A real pleasure to watch your cunning journey through the life of one very unfortunate specimen. Your vignette segues directly into that authentic footage segment that was so widely disseminated a year or two back, so well, in fact, that the two together might form an even more powerful, seamless, whole, if stripped/pasted together. In any case, a great post and a fine work of cinematic art.
Can you answer this question? If you will I support you The question is I know that you are very older than me What will be the reason find it out Due 27th - 31st
2:33 that squid scared the life out of me
Exactly what I was looking for 3 days!
spectacular video reconstruction! Congratulations for this
3:10 2 squids
and the death of one
sperm whale: oh hello can i order some GIANT calmari plese
No buddy, just the tooth fish left
Fast food worker: Sorry, were Out of Colossal Squid but we have toothfish!
Dang it
PokeARK Kid colossal*
I love these replies
I would really love to see an IMAX 3D documentary featuring this same video with improved VFX, I would be more than happy to watch 10 of these at a GT IMAX theatre
I can't stop watching this! Also this was 7 yrs ago ive never watched it before ;-;
damn nature i'm really scary
Why are you scary???
Mananag Ki Vato he just is
I have never been more terrified in my life than seeing hubert wasserman
1:42 me leaving my room for the first time in 7 days
great video one of my favourites
Beautiful video and music!
I love this vid.
We need a video of the colossal squid in a fractal universe ocean, one of those brilliant Mandelbrot zoom-ins populated by fractal-point cephalopods...
this haunts my nightmares, so thanks for that ❤❤❤
so beautiful it made a tear in my eye
4:14 that actually happened in 2007
It is based on it
that was freakin cool. loved the sperm whale part.
love it
Thank you for sharing.
awesome footage!
Colossal squid is my favourite 😍 deep sea animal .
I saw in LEGO masters that they built a colossal squid 🦑.
lol
Cool
Ah yes a man of culture I see
seeing this in 3d as a kid was terrifying
Now we are going to need a colossal fryer. Call it a Squid Pro Quo.
Fine dining like no other, ammonia calamari
Squidery dickery doc
4:31 as we know what will happen to it next
I know lots of people are going to ridicule the old style animation, but the squid attacks are actually nearly perfectly accurate representations of how we now know that squids snare their prey.
Seriously cool presentation. I only just found it in 2022. Liked and shared.
My 8 and 5 year old boys love this, it’s their favourite video right now. My how is now covered in pictures of squid :-)
Its hard to imagine that somewhere in the deep, thousands, perhaps millions of colossal squid congregate, breed and live. The same for the giant. I read they believe sperm whales consume squid in the millions each year and yet we have rarely filmed them and never studied their habits. I'd love to have a sub that would allow me to go down into where e think they live and stay down for as long as it took. I wish we could attach cameras to sperm whales that could see in the dark and last for a few dives. I've seen a couple videos like that, but none could really see what was going on. Really fascinates me no end.😅
for real, even more fascinating knowing there are so many other creatures we haven’t even discovered yet. really is another world down there
I always thought squids only had one eye
Nah, 2 eyes that they can't move, just frickin huge to account for the low light.
hah, nice video :D thats for sure supoosed to be the back story of the in 2007 caught colossal squid. ( of which also a documentary exists ) nice stuff! i love this deep water atmosphere... its so damn creepy!
Can u put a link for the documentary?
Jellyfish
This is the dramatization of what happened. It's what they show in te papa where the squid is housed.
I love this sooooooo much!! TYSM
This would make a good video of the life of a Colossal Squid!
And now we return to, Keep up with the squidations! Ok the ratings are up! They ate the Kardations! Yay
OK! This is brilliant, as a line, that is!
lol
Well, it's an interesting idea for a story for say: fictionpress.
Video explaining the difference between colossal squid and giant squid kzhead.info/sun/gquQd6yjmGSnmHA/bejne.html
love it so much
Great video!
great work
I love the eyes of the colossal squid
Lmao when I saw this when I was 6, it looked super realistic
props to the guy being seen from the colossal squid and making it not go away
I did not know baby collosal squids are so smol.
Sperm whale: Haaaaaaaaa- Colossal squid: NOT TODAY BOI
GREAT JOB.i have been subscribed to your site for quite a while but haven't seen much from your Museum. This was so well done--suspenseful, informative(i liked the way the sperm whale missed its shot!!).
I REMEMBER SEEING THIS AT TE PAPA AS KID HAHA, man this brings back memories
Looking for squid stuff and came across this,not what I was looking for
collasal squid is bigger than giant squid
i agree
While colossal squid is mor massive it is not as long, the giant's tentacles make up most of it's length.
*Colossal
*thiccer*
Yes
I LOVE SQUIDS
Cephalopods
Fascinating creatures indeed!
2:34 bro is giving him the GLUCK GLUCK 3000💀💀💀
Well that was trippy
0:34 what kind of jellyfish is that ? (If it exsicts in real life)
John Gaming123 possibly search it up DO Some research
Aeginura grimaldii
Atolla jellyfish
@3:33 ITS A BRA!!!
*thicc*
I *DEEPLY* love this.
Ha deep
This still is good 10 years later
beauteful
Colossal squids are super cute!
Omg you think squids are adorable two?! Yes, although I have to admit, they are only cute and majestic while there alive
thatguyuknow5543 I know right! When they're dead, they look different but otherwise, they're super cute and majestic! I'm so happy someone FINALLY likes squids! :)
same here! most people think they are gross but I don't. Whenever I see one on TV or something i freak out. I even have a plush squid. Anyways I'm glad to find someone who likes squids as much as i do!
thatguyuknow5543 I WISH I had a plush squid! :D SQUIDS RULE!
totally
Quite cool. I was kind of annoyed by the light-emitting eyes. :D But nice video indeed.
Free the brain what. They do that.
i love your animation😍and cool
There actually is live footage of a colossal squid.. A fishing vessel caught one while fishing.. It came up attached to their line feeding on I believe a Tooth Fish?? It was caught in December in the Ross sea of Antarctica. It's remains are now on display in a museum I think.
This is a dramatization of how the squid acts which they show in Te Papa. The channel who posted this is Te Papa.
mattlonglade14 animation plus the colossal squid is real
the squid looks so innocent and harmless....whale and humans are the bad guys in this video XD
The whales..not rly it's just ecosystem, as for the humans...haven't we realized we're a dick to nature?
+Sakunto Paksi Some of us have, majority are still ignorant and believe in religion, as if praying will help.
+PuroYO So your saying believing in religion makes you automatically destroy the environment and being an atheist makes you instantly save it? Wow I'm going to have to start doing the shit my atheist neighbor does like burn tires. Was helping my other neighbor a devoted christian plant tree's and shit but thats for suckers.
valcan321 You have to understand that atheists can't go 30 seconds without proclaiming how much they hate anyone who is not an atheist. It's their own special brand of Tourette Syndrome.
Martin M, that’s true the squid are the victims of our doing. The colossal Squid is a beautiful elegant creature which deserves respect and love and we get people saying ( I will quote a video I saw ) “ Man-eating super squid! Catch And Kill”
Nice world in the sea!!!! LIKE!!!!!!!!
Great computer animation.👍.
Yeah little fish, eat the baby squid before they're not baby squid and devour you whole
Well, that squid was way too big to even see those little fish.
who's here from epic wildlife??
The colossal squid is the reason I love the ocean now
The colossal squid is the reason i'm scared of the ocean now.
@@thnhbinhjack52 ahhahaha that’s fair enough but I think it’s fascinating that creatures like this actually exist
God this is awesome. While most of these shots feel like an animal documentary. Some of these shots are things that we can only get through animation like 1:27
This is like watching Sharktopus.
how?!
+Cooliostuff because it's just crappy computer animation.
Magnus Hedemark lol this is not meant to look real
i would like to see you try animating
I think this is like watching Pirates of the Caribbean Kraken life
"DAMN BOI, HE THICC"
An amazing creature.
I remember watching this as a kid
me too good time heh