National Geographic wrote:
Tsunemi Kubodera, a scientist with Japan’s National Science Museum, caught the 24-foot (7-meter) animal earlier this month near the island of Chichijima, some 600 miles (960 kilometers) southeast of Tokyo.
The squid was lured with by a line baited with smaller squid. Unfortunately, the squid died on injuries sustained as researchers tried to capture her and she tried to fight her way free. The colossal squid is Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni. The next largest squid is Architeuthis, which is longer but not as massive.
