Colossal Squid on Ice. "Biggest Ever".


	Colossal Squid on Ice. "Biggest Ever".

righthand

4-28-2008 2:05 PM

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4-28-2008 2:08 PM

alanocu

4-28-2008 5:14 PM

Kauaiguy

I love calamari!

4-28-2008 8:39 PM

tanyamm

That makes me so hungry!

4-29-2008 1:44 PM

bmman89

I think it is crazy that it was relatively obscure until recently. I believe they caught it in February 2007, One would think that something like this would be on the front page of every single paper. There are some other pictures of it if you Google giant squid. Cool Clip.

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<H1 class="article-no-standfirst">New Zealand scientists begin examination of colossal squid</H1></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://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/apr/28/4?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">The colossal squid has been described by scientists working at the Te Papa research institute at the Museum of New Zealand as the "biggest colossal squid ever caught".</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://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/apr/28/4?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">Once defrosted, the dissection of the eight metre (26.25ft) long, 495kg (307lb) squid will be webcast on the <A href="http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/TePapa/English/AboutTePapa/Media/Testingacolossalpieceofice.htm">museum's website</A></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://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/apr/28/4?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">Scientists know little about colossal squid, a species of cephalopod that lives at extreme depths.</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://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/apr/28/4?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">They had previously only been rarely sighted through partly dismembered, digested or rotted body parts recovered from whales or washed up on beaches. The colossal squid was first identified after parts of two tentacles were found in the stomach of a sperm whale in 1925.</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://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/apr/28/4?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews"> If the squid gets too warm, the outside could rot while the inside remains frozen. Scientists have been adding ice to slow the defrosting process.</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://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/apr/28/4?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews"> the <A href=" http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/category/colossal-squid/">museum's blog</A>  said</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E8D57CCE-DA6A-4975-BFEB-DB685CEEC2B3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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