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July 22, 2007
Look What They Found Washed Up on the Beach!
A rare giant squid--one of the largest ever found--has washed up on a remote Australian beach, giving scientists a field day as they examine this mysterious deep-ocean creature they hardly ever see.
Look at the giant squid--as big as a bus--that washed up on a remote beach in Tasmania! The eyes are as big as volleyballs.
Reuters reports that the mantle (or main body) measures 6.5 feet long, but all told it's as big as a bus, measuring 26 feet from the tip of its body to the end of its tentacles. Found on Ocean Beach on the western coast of the island state Tasmania, the giant squid, whose tentacles were badly damaged, weighed in at 551 pounds. "It's a whopper," Tasmanian Museum senior curator Genefor Walker-Smith told local media.
The photo depicted above is a model located in Canada, but it will give you an idea of the relative size of the creature in Australia.
Posted by Post Scripts at July 22, 2007 08:56 AM
Comments
"Washed up on the beach"
I wish this was a story about Cindy Sheehan or Michael Moore or both. Come to think of it, that fat squid reminds of Moore.
Posted by: MarvinG at July 22, 2007 12:55 PM
MarvinG...that's a pleasant picture...Moore & Sheehan...all washed up! Nice goin!
Posted by: Tina at July 22, 2007 10:32 PM