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wafflycat - 28 Feb 2006 19:34 GMT

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4756514.stm

"Giant squid grabs London audience"

"One of the biggest and most complete giant squids ever found is on display
at London's Natural History Museum.

Measuring a monstrous 8.62m (28ft), the squid was caught off the coast of
the Falkland Islands by a trawler.

Researchers at the museum undertook a painstaking process to preserve the
giant creature, which is now on display in a 9m- (30ft-) long glass tank."

The felines would enjoy devouring that.

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Monique Y. Mudama - 28 Feb 2006 19:50 GMT

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4756514.stm
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> "Giant squid grabs London audience"

Think about this:

"Most giant squid tend to be washed up dead on beaches, or retrieved
from the stomach of sperm whales, so they tend to be in quite poor
condition,"

So ... this thing is 28 feet long, and they tend to find it in the
stomachs of sperm whales ....

Puts the size of a sperm whale into perspective.

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Marina - 01 Mar 2006 14:04 GMT

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4756514.stm
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> Measuring a monstrous 8.62m (28ft), the squid was caught off the coast
> of the Falkland Islands by a trawler.

<shudder> Imagine meeting that when you're out for a swim.

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Cheryl Perkins - 01 Mar 2006 14:41 GMT

> <shudder> Imagine meeting that when you're out for a swim.

They're deep ocean beasties. Bits of them sometimes get washed ashore here
- I saw a preserved specimen of one of those finds, once. Although
impressive, it wasn't nearly as impressive as that one.

It's fascinating that something so large can share the planet with us and
be so little-known.

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NMR - 01 Mar 2006 18:43 GMT

>> <shudder> Imagine meeting that when you're out for a swim.
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> It's fascinating that something so large can share the planet with us and
> be so little-known.

It is bad all the money we spend on trying to get out there; which I do
support. we don't even know what is around us.

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