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mit Mantellängen von bis zu 4 Metern.
This overstates the colossal squid’s mantle length. Credible sources place the maximum documented mantle length at about 2.5 metres, not 4 metres.
Full reasoning
The article says the colossal squid reaches mantle lengths up to 4 metres. That appears to confuse total length with mantle length.
Te Papa, which houses the best-known complete colossal squid specimen, states that the specimen’s mantle length was 2.5 metres and its final total length was 4.2 metres after thawing. A scientific review of Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni likewise reports that the species attains a maximum mantle length of 2.5 metres and a total length of 6 metres.
So the "4 metres" figure is not supported as a mantle length. It is substantially above the documented maximum mantle length in the cited literature.
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- How big is the colossal squid on display? | Te Papa
The team quickly realised that the specimen was much shorter than this. They came up with a final total length of 4.2 metres... The mantle length of the tank colossal squid was measured at 2.5 metres.
- Biology of the world’s largest invertebrate, the colossal squid Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni
The colossal squid... attains a maximum mantle length (ML) of 2.5 meters and total length (TL) of 6 meters.
Am 30. Juli 2009 wurde ein sechs Meter großes Exemplar in 1500 Meter Seetiefe im Golf von Mexiko geborgen.
The depth is wrong by a factor of about 3.3. Official reports said the squid was caught at more than 1,500 feet depth, not 1,500 metres.
Full reasoning
This sentence appears to convert the original depth incorrectly.
The official U.S. Minerals Management Service / BOEM press release about the 30 July 2009 Gulf of Mexico specimen states that it was caught at more than 1,500 feet depth. That is about 457 metres, not 1,500 metres. Contemporary coverage repeating the official information likewise gives the depth as more than 460 metres.
So the article’s "1500 Meter Seetiefe" is a unit error: the original figure was in feet, not metres.
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- MMS Study Positively Identifies Giant Squid Presence in Gulf of Mexico
The 19.5 foot long, 103 pound squid was caught at a water depth of more than 1,500 feet in a special trawl net pulled by the NOAA vessel Gordon Gunter.
- Study Positively Identifies Giant Squid Presence in Gulf of Mexico
The 19.5 foot long, 103 pound squid was caught at a water depth of more than 1,500 feet in a special trawl net pulled by the NOAA vessel Gordon Gunter during a pilot study.
Im Januar 2013 gelang es dem Discovery Channel und NHK, mit Hilfe eines Teams in einem U-Boot nahe der Chichi-Insel einen Riesenkalmar zu filmen.
The date is off. The footage shown in January 2013 was captured during an expedition in July/summer 2012, then released in January 2013.
Full reasoning
This sentence misdates when the filming happened.
Multiple contemporary reports state that the giant squid footage associated with NHK and Discovery Channel was captured in July / summer 2012. January 2013 was when the footage was announced, released, or broadcast, not when the squid was filmed.
So the event did not "succeed" in filming the squid in January 2013; rather, the filming occurred months earlier in 2012 and became public in January 2013.
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- Giant squid filmed in its natural environment | Nature
The 6-week mission was funded by the Japan Broadcasting Commission (NHK) and the US Discovery Channel, and took place in July... In this image made from video recorded in the summer of 2012, provided by NHK and Discovery Channel...
- JAPAN/FILE: First images of giant squid captured in ocean depths | Reuters Archive Licensing
The video was shot last July near the Ogasawara islands... NHK will air its video footage on January 13, followed by the Discovery Channel on January 27.
Spanische Wissenschaftler haben im September 2003 zwei Riesentintenfische an der Nordküste Spaniens bei Oviedo erstmals lebend gefangen; diese verendeten jedoch kurz darauf.
This was not the first live capture of giant squid. New Zealand researchers had already captured and filmed live juvenile giant squid in early 2002.
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The sentence says the Spanish team first captured giant squid alive in September 2003. But official New Zealand sources record an earlier live capture.
NIWA reported in March 2002 that Steve O'Shea's team had achieved "the first time giant squid had been captured and filmed alive" after catching juvenile Architeuthis off New Zealand. Te Ara, the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, likewise notes that four years before the 2005 adult wild photographs, O'Shea had already caught tiny live juvenile giant squid.
That means the 2003 Spanish capture was not the first live capture of giant squid overall. At most, it may have been the first live capture of larger or near-adult specimens, but the article does not make that qualification.
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- NIWA news forum | Earth Sciences New Zealand | NIWA
A media conference to mark the first time giant squid had been captured and filmed alive was led by marine biologist Dr Steve O'Shea at NIWA's Wellington campus on 28 February... Dr O'Shea and his team caught the juvenile squid...
- Juvenile giant squid | Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
It was not until September 2005 that an adult giant squid was photographed in the wild. But four years earlier, New Zealand scientist Steve O’Shea caught some tiny (9–13 millimetre) juvenile giant squid off the Kaikōura coast.
Am 22. Dezember 2015 wurde vor der Küste der Toyama-Bucht des Japanischen Meeres ein 4 Meter langes Exemplar aus unmittelbarer Nähe gefilmt.
The date is wrong. Contemporary reports say the Toyama Bay giant squid was filmed on December 24, 2015, not December 22.
Full reasoning
Reports about the well-known Toyama Bay sighting place it on 24 December 2015 (Christmas Eve), not 22 December.
AFP/Phys.org reported that the giant squid was discovered on December 24, 2015 at a port in Toyama, and other contemporaneous coverage likewise described it as a Christmas Eve sighting in Toyama Bay.
So the article’s 22 December 2015 date is incorrect.
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- Giant squid makes rare appearance in Japanese port
A giant squid, four metres in length, was discovered by fishermen on December 24, 2015 at a port in the city of Toyama on Japan's northwestern coast.
- Rare Giant Squid Spotted Off the Coast of Japan | TIME
A giant squid was seen off the coast of Japan on Christmas Eve... Spectators spotted the creature from a pier in Toyama Bay.