"I actually love that this is our first glimpse of what will become a true giant," Kat Bolstad, a cephalopod biologist at the Auckland University of Technology who helped verify the video, told The New York Times. "It’s exciting to see the first in situ footage of a juvenile colossal and humbling to think that they have no idea that humans exist," Kat added in a statement, per NPR.

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Before billion-view vlogs, viral pranks, hours-long ASMR videos, crazy meme reviews, and of course, 10-minute apology videos, there was just a guy standing in front of some elephants. Yes, that was YouTube’s first-ever video. Now, more than two decades ...

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Before billion-view vlogs, viral pranks, hours-long ASMR videos, crazy meme reviews, and of course, 10-minute apology videos, there was just a guy standing in front of some elephants. Yes, that was YouTube’s first-ever video. Now, more than two decades ...