<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e0d10811-ff64-495c-a250-8fc4be0678c2/E5FF12B9-BFDB-4D2D-8E7F-C5D08CC8CBB1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090921/sc_nm/us_usa_giantsquid" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090921/sc_nm/us_usa_giantsquid" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090921/sc_nm/us_usa_giantsquid">U.S. scientists in the <SPAN id="lw_1253658029_0" class="yshortcuts">Gulf of Mexico</SPAN> unexpectedly netted a 19.5-foot (5.9-meter) giant squid off the coast of Louisiana, the Interior Department said on Monday, showing how little is known about life in the <SPAN id="lw_1253658029_1" class="yshortcuts">deep waters</SPAN> of the Gulf.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090921/sc_nm/us_usa_giantsquid">Not since 1954, when a giant squid was found floating dead off the <SPAN id="lw_1253658029_2" class="yshortcuts">Mississippi Delta</SPAN>, has the rare species been spotted in the Gulf of Mexico.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090921/sc_nm/us_usa_giantsquid">The squid, weighing in at 103 pounds (46.7 kg), was caught July 30 in a trawl net more than 1,500 feet underwater as it was pulled by a <SPAN id="lw_1253658029_3" class="yshortcuts">research vessel</SPAN>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090921/sc_nm/us_usa_giantsquid">The giant squid, which did not survive the rapid change in water depth when brought to the surface, was preserved and sent to the <SPAN id="lw_1253658029_4" class="yshortcuts">Smithsonian Institution</SPAN>'s <SPAN id="lw_1253658029_5" class="yshortcuts">National Museum of Natural History</SPAN> for further study.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090921/sc_nm/us_usa_giantsquid"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/46CE579A-3D2B-4994-B54A-8DFCC86557BC" alt="This July 30, 2009 picture provided by the National Oceanographic and" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090921/sc_nm/us_usa_giantsquid">The squid discovered by the researchers is significant because the species are difficult to catch, leaving much to be learned about them.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; 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