# How we found the giant squid

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2013
- Speaker: Edith Widder
- Year: 2013
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/edith_widder_how_we_found_the_giant_squid)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Humankind has been looking for the giant squid (Architeuthis) since we first started taking pictures underwater. But the elusive deep-sea predator could never be caught on film. Oceanographer and inventor Edith Widder shares the key insight -- and the teamwork -- that helped to capture the squid on film for the first time.

## Lectures

1. [How we found the giant squid](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/edith_widder_how_we_found_the_giant_squid/b2b912cbe9f4), 9 min (TED's player)