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Possible Collosal Squid discovered!

Lila Malvae
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:20 am

News Article.
I found this today when I was looking at Yahoo for something. I completely forget what I was looking for. Anyway, this thing is 33 ft long and weighs over half a ton. They believe it is a member of a relatively unknown species of squid described by sailor lore and fiction. They are planning on studying the creature. I wonder what they'll turn up with?

Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:56 am

i remember hearing about that! some squid used to attack ships, though its much more rare for that to happen now, because they are aggressive hunters. they will also try to drag down a scuba diver to drown him and eat him, though ive only heard that. but still, hardly ever happens because of the depths they live at.
and baby gaint squid (im assuming its the same for these guys) live at the surface and decend as they get older.

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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 5:29 pm

The squid is possible. There was some giant, prehistoric, washing machine sized jelly fish found off the coast of Tokyo that were thought to have been exstinct.

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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:29 pm

Colossal Squid: http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/images3/squid.jpg

Giant jellyfish info:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/01/0119_060119_jellyfish.html

The first live giant squid (Architeuthis) photos:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0927_050927_giant_squid.html

New apes. Giant chimpanzees?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0414_030314_strangeape.html

Giant jumping sturgeon
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060817-sturgeon.html
Why they may be jumping:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/10/061030-sturgeon.html

Plenty of weird creatures out there, and plenty of inexplicably weird behavior, too. smile
If those apes turn out to be a new species...well, there you go yet another example of macrofauna we haven't classified before.