microrobert
09-16-2014, 04:19 PM
Colossal squid exam gives rare glimpse of legendary creature
The squid is a female, and its eight arms are each well over a metre (3.3 feet) long.
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND—It was a calm morning in Antarctica’s remote Ross Sea, during the season when the sun never sets, when Capt. John Bennett and his crew hauled up a creature with tentacles like fire hoses and eyes like dinner plates from a mile below the surface.
A colossal squid: 350 kilograms (770 pounds), as long as a minibus and one of the sea’s most elusive species. It had been frozen for eight months until Tuesday, when scientists in New Zealand got a long-anticipated chance to thaw out the animal and inspect it — once they used a forklift to manoeuvre it into a tank.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yz_57uadUQ
Colossal squid exam gives rare glimpse of legendary creature | Toronto Star (http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/09/16/colossal_squid_exam_gives_rare_glimpse_of_legendar y_creature.html)
The squid is a female, and its eight arms are each well over a metre (3.3 feet) long.
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND—It was a calm morning in Antarctica’s remote Ross Sea, during the season when the sun never sets, when Capt. John Bennett and his crew hauled up a creature with tentacles like fire hoses and eyes like dinner plates from a mile below the surface.
A colossal squid: 350 kilograms (770 pounds), as long as a minibus and one of the sea’s most elusive species. It had been frozen for eight months until Tuesday, when scientists in New Zealand got a long-anticipated chance to thaw out the animal and inspect it — once they used a forklift to manoeuvre it into a tank.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yz_57uadUQ
Colossal squid exam gives rare glimpse of legendary creature | Toronto Star (http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/09/16/colossal_squid_exam_gives_rare_glimpse_of_legendar y_creature.html)