Colossal Squid
6 Aug 2008 – SquidCam's back – Colossal squid on the move
The bigger colossal squid has been moved from its preservation tank into a purpose built display tank on Wednesday 6 August.
The squid webcast is now over. We will make it available from this page as a streamed video sometime next week.
Thanks for watching!
The squidcam broadcast was brought to you in high definition over the REANNZ KAREN network powered by TelstraClear, Te Papa's leading telecommunications partner.
28 – 30 April 2008 - The Colossal Squid thaw and examination
A team of scientists have been thawing and examining giant and colossal
squid between 28 – 30 April 2008.
Includes the video recording of 2 lectures, the audio recording of our Science Express programme about the colossal squid, and the last hours of the webcast of the colossal squid's examination. more>
You can buy reproductions of all our squid images. You will find different sets of images in our Picture library, and in our blog.
For all images, you can place your orders with our Picture Library.
Te Papa is delighted to acknowledge the support of the Discovery Channel in the preservation of the colossal squid specimen. Their support will also include the entire thaw and examination process being filmed by Natural History New Zealand for a Discovery Channel in-depth documentary programme to be released worldwide in late 2008.
What do we know about the life and habits of the colossal squid? How common are they?
How big is it? What's going to happen to it? Will it be on display for the public? Includes the schedule for the dissection.
How did the colossal squid make its way from the Ross Sea to Te Papa?
These photos are of the colossal squid caught in 2003.
Includes the video recording of 2 lectures, the audio recording of our Science Express programme about the colossal squid, and the last hours of the webcast of the colossal squid's examination.