By Susan Milius
For the first time, researchers have photographed a living giant squid in the wild.
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The legendary species routinely rears out of the depths in movies and literature, but until now, the only real giant squids that people have seen have been dead ones. Considerable money and effort have disappeared into the deep sea on failed searches for the giants, the largest invertebrates on the planet.