Ultraman, Where Art Thou?

This handout photograph by the Royal Society shows the first photographs of a live giant squid in its natural environment, taken by Japanese scientists in the Pacific Ocean. Japanese zoologists have made the first recording of a live giant squid, one of the strangest and most elusive creatures in the world. The size of a bus, with vast eyes and a querulous beak, the giant squid has long nourished myth and literature, most memorably in Jules Vernes' 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in which a squid tried to engulf the submarine Nautilus with its suckered tentacles. This 12 metre giant squid was found dead in Spain earlier this year. But scientists have managed to capture a live one on film for the first time, teaching us more about how this giant moves and hunts (Image: Reuters/Alonso Gonzalez)