Giant Squid
The Giant Squid, once a myth, then sought for sciences sake…has been found.
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For decades, scientists and sea explorers have mounted costly expeditions to hunt down and photograph the giant squid, a legendary monster with eyes the size of dinner plates and a nightmarish tangle of tentacles lined with sucker pads.
The goal has been to learn more about a bizarre creature of no little fame — Jules Verne’s attacked a submarine and Peter Benchley’s ate children — that in real life has stubbornly refused to give up its secrets.
While giant squid have been snagged in fishing nets and dead or dying ones have washed ashore, expeditions have repeatedly failed to photograph one living in its natural habitat, the inky depths of the sea.
But today two Japanese scientists, Tsunemi Kubodera and Kyoichi Mori, report in a leading British biological journal that they have made the world’s first observations of a giant squid in the wild.
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I can just hear it now…
The Giant Squids are probably having an emergency giant squid convention to decide what they are going to do with the one that finally got caught. I can hear it now:
“…I thought that we told you not to get caught on camera”
“Now that they know we exist, they are never going to leave us alone!”
“We will have to find new places to live and go on vacation!”
“And just when we were getting used to this place”
