Unleash the Kraken!

From Time magazine:

A team of researchers led by zoologist Tsunemi Kubodera encountered the squid in July near the Ogasawara islands, several hundred miles off the coast of Japan. Using a bioluminescent lure that mimics the glow of jellyfish, Kubodera’s team found the squid and followed it to a depth of nearly 3,000 feet before losing track of the mammoth mollusk.

Though Kubodera estimated that the squid was only three meters long, he told Agence France-Presse that it was missing two of its longest tentacles, which means its original length may have been closer to eight meters – a little more than 26 feet.