This just in on MSN News: New Zealand fishermen catch Colossal Squid. That link is of the type that will either cease to work or point to a completely unconnected story before long, if so I'll try and update it with a proper one. Strange coincidence, though, isn't it? Or maybe not.....maybe this is it and they're building up numbers for a big squelchy revolution whereby they blind us by squirting us with ink and then nibble us to death with their pointy beaks.
Note that the quip about calamari being the size of tractor tyres seems to be obligatory in all squid-based articles now. This particular one doesn't mention them being piss-flavoured, but they would be, broadly speaking anyway, because giant squid use ammonia as a buoyancy mechanism (as they don't have swimbladders). Probably just a little bit tough and chewy as well, I would guess.
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big article in the Independent today, complete with a slightly better "london bus size comparison chart".
ps. you owe me sick squid...
I've redirected the link in the post to the Independent article as there's more info in that anyway. The online version doesn't reproduce the bus size chart, unfortunately.
Apparently scientists are hoping this will shed some light on how the big slimy buggers reproduce. Apparently, also, "The males are believed to have something resembling a penis.". I think I'd be mildly offended if someone said that about me. And they have - many, many times.
More pics are available at the throughly excellent Pharyngula blog. Or there's are really really big one here.
That's not me trying to say "truly" while drunk, by the way. I just missed an "o" out of "thoroughly". And that should be "a" not "are" in the second sentence. Hard to proofread through all those hyperlinks.
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