Omigosh omigosh omigosh! Could any better news have awaited my return home?

News24.com has a colorful account of the first-ever filming of a live giant squid, including some crazy backstory:

In 2003, New Zealand marine biologists laid a sex trap.

They ground up some squid gonads, believing that the scent would drive male giant squids wild as the creatures migrated through New Zealand waters.

The hope was that a camera would squirt out the pureed genitals and a passing squid, driven into a sexual frenzy, would then mate with the lens — a project that, some may be relieved to hear, never came to fruition.

(The New York Times has a somewhat less sensational story.)

Any way you slice it, this is exciting news. Clyde Roper must be over the moon.