Now most people would answer grilled, and it's true that grilled chicken does contain less fat and fewer calories.

However, grilled chicken poses a hidden danger.

And that was a Humboldt squid, a juvenile Humboldt squid, about three feet long.

Starving the Squid

How many arms does a squid have?

I want to eat squid this evening.

Edith Widder How we found the giant squid

It was Mike that got me invited to the squid summit, a gathering of squid experts at the Discovery Channel that summer during Shark Week.

Most of the characteristic char grilled taste doesn't come from the wood or the charcoal.

In the next bit, we're going to see a couple squid.

What was not mentioned in the Discovery documentary was that the bait squid that Dr. Kubodera used, a one meter long diamondback squid had a light attached to it, a squid jig of the type that longline fishermen use, and I think it was this light that brought the giant in.

And I was wondering why nobody knew more about this dangerous grilled chicken, which doesn't seem very harmful.

This is the stuff we were feeding our kids Extremo Burritos, corn dogs, pizza pockets, grilled cheese sandwiches.

The varieties landed are tuna, bonito, mackerel, squid, shark, lobster and shrimp.

So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom.

Now I'm not saying that if you eat grilled chicken that's not marinated, you're definitely going to catch cancer and die.

These are squid. Now males, when they fight, if they're really aggressive, they turn white.

This little squid is called the fire shooter because of its ability to do this.

Again, another plug for the animals in the ocean, Vibrio fischeri lives in this squid.

Lauren Hodge If you were going to a restaurant and wanted a healthier option, which would you choose, grilled or fried chicken?

Bingo! Now I'm told that's not just a squid phenomenon with males, but I don't know.

This is something that my people at SQUID Labs are working on at the moment, called electronic rope.

The reason the squid is willing to put up with these shenanigans is because it wants that light.

Humankind has been looking for the giant squid 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.

What the squid has developed is a shutter that can open and close over this specialized light organ housing the bacteria.

But then one night, my mom was cooking grilled chicken for dinner, and I noticed that the edges of the chicken, which had been marinated in lemon juice, turned white.

You hear about giant squid and things like that, but some of these animals get up to be approximately 140, 160 feet long.

For example, this shrimp releases its bioluminescent chemicals into the water just the way a squid or an octopus would release an ink cloud.

A lot of them can release their luciferin or luferase in the water just the way a squid or an octopus will release an ink cloud.

The way that this symbiosis works is that this little squid lives just off the coast of Hawaii, just in sort of shallow knee deep water.

And as the day goes by the bacteria double, they release the molecule, and then light comes on at night, exactly when the squid wants it.

I gave a talk on unobtrusive viewing and optical luring of deep sea squid in which I emphasized the importance of using quiet, unobtrusive platforms for exploration.

The squid is nocturnal, so during the day it buries itself in the sand and sleeps, but then at night it has to come out to hunt.

But then if you think about it, the squid has this terrible problem because it's got this dying, thick culture of bacteria and it can't sustain that.

Now the bacteria are dilute, that little hormone molecule is gone, so they're not making light but of course the squid doesn't care. It's asleep in the sand.

And there are a lot of different animals that can do this There's jellyfish, there's squid, there's a whole lot of different crustaceans, there's even fish that can do this.

On bright nights when there is lots of starlight or moonlight that light can penetrate the depth of the water the squid lives in, since it's just in those couple feet of water.

Eighty six seconds after it went into its pinwheel display, we recorded this This is a squid, over six feet long, that is so new to science, it cannot be placed in any known scientific family.

It comes in a five ounce portion of tilapia breaded with Dijon mustard and crispy, broiled breadcrumbs and a steaming pile of pecan quinoa pilaf with crunchy, grilled broccoli so soft and sweet and charred and smoky on the outside with just a hint of chili flake.

And it opens and closes the shutter so the amount of light coming out of the bottom which is made by the bacterium exactly matches how much light hits the squid's back, so the squid doesn't make a shadow.

Then he meets the yeti crab, the famous vampire squid elusive, hard to find and the Dumbo octopus, which looks so much like a cartoon in real life that really didn't have to change a thing when I drew it.

Beaches, mostly in Mexico but to some extent also in the United States, were hit, and birds succumbed in large numbers, despite the dispersion efforts. Because of the dispersion, shrimp, squid, and some fish populations suffered, with fisheries hit even harder.

Mike deGruy was also invited, and he spoke with great passion about his love of the ocean, and he also talked to me about applying my approach to something he's been involved with for a very long time, which is the hunt for the giant squid.

So for the deep sea squid hunt, I proposed using an optical lure attached to a camera platform with no thrusters, no motors, just a battery powered camera, and the only illumination coming from red light that's invisible to most deep sea animals that are adapted to see primarily blue.

And so what happens is every morning when the sun comes up the squid goes back to sleep, it buries itself in the sand, and it's got a pump that's attached to its circadian rhythm, and when the sun comes up it pumps out like 95 percent of the bacteria.