Something about this article isn’t very right to me.

TOKYO — When a nearly 6-meter-long tentacle was hauled aboard his research ship, Tsunemi Kubodera knew he had something big. Then it began sucking on his hands. But what came next excited him most — hundreds of vivid photos of a rare giant squid in its natural habitat deep undersea.

Observing a giant squid in the wild for the first time, Kubodera’s team captured photos of a 8-meter-long, purplish-red sea monster attacking its bait nearly 900 meters undersea, then struggling for more than four hours to get free. The squid pulled so hard on the line that held the shrimp bait that it severed one of its own tentacles.

“It was quite an experience to feel the still-functioning tentacle on my hand,” Kubodera, a researcher with Japan’s National Science Museum, said. “But the photos were even better.”

While the discovery of a giant squid the size of a bus is truly fascinating, the act of discovery wasn’t so desirable. Sure, observe all you want in the name of whatever but can’t you people at least leave the squid intact in its natural habitat? Did the giant squid prey on you? Hey, we live on land, and the squid in the deep sea. It’s not bothering us and no studies have indicated that squids are vicious. So leave it alone, tentacles included! And if sqids are better looking, I’m pretty sure some squid lovers would now be protesting vehemently. Some creatures are just born unlucky, on top of being bulky and ugly.

I’m also curious. Since Japanese are known to love live seafood, was Kubodera secretly yearning to taste the tentacle?

Read my other post on splashing aliens here.