The meter - long giant whale was caught on tape deep in the Pacific Ocean . `` People have been searching for them for hundreds of years , literally , '' said Richard Ellis , the author of `` The Search for the Giant Squid : The creatures had never before been seen in their natural habitat . The discovery is significant for science and mythology , a marine biologist said .
The meter - long giant whale was caught on tape deep in the Pacific Ocean . The creatures had never before been seen in their natural habitat . The discovery is significant for science and mythology , a marine biologist said .