Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaauuuuwwwwaaaahh

[Mazling]

Remember the giant squid stuff that has been floating about lately? Well, *they* found one, and took some photos ...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0927_050927_giant_squid.html (be sure to click the 'next photo' link.)

I'm a bit uke: and , but nonetheless this is very cool.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Im not that or even since it's nothing THAT special.

It's cool that they find more stuff about...stuff, but i wish they'd find bigger ones. Bring in the whale killers!

 

[Guest]

a squid that looks exactly like a 404 file not found msg, amazing

 

[Will]

Fixed the link.

 

[Mobius]

What is that white beam coming out of it?! I'm worried now. Its either a laser beam or a long strand of milky white squid juice.

 

[xane]

Squids with frickin laser beams coming out of their head ?

 

[TdC]

must be it or a close-up of something Wij left floating in a pool somewhere

 

[Whipped]

I've been half a foot away from a giant squid.

Ok, so it was dead and in the local aquarium, but it was still pretty cool.

 

[dysfunction]

Yummy even bigger bits of Deep Fried Calamari...

 

[yaruar]

Giant squid rock..

However the one you DON'T want to meet in a dark (and decidedly wet alley) is a collosal squid. Estimated to grow up to or over twice the sice of the Giant squid and rumored to be capable of taking on and beating a sperm whale in a fight...

It's just a shame there are no giant 10 meter cuttlefish, that would rock more...

Oh and whilst looking at this stuff they recently discovered a giant octupus over 4m in length and weighing 75kg.

Cephalopoda>All

 

[Tilda]

Pretty cool, but I want to see pictures like this! :

 

[rynnor]

I've read reports from the 18th/19th century of squid washing up on remote islands that were 120' long - dunno if there are any that big still around though - maybe we'll find one one day.

Main problem is we only see them dead and a lot of things like to eat dead squid so only a small percentage get spotted by humans.