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AH's Colossal Squid Caught Near Antarctica!
« on: April 03, 2003, 10:38:33 AM »
The gig's up. They finally caught her. Poor HiTech.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/04/03/colossal.squid.reut/index.html

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AH's Colossal Squid Caught Near Antarctica!
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2003, 10:41:40 AM »
Cool! :D
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Way cool
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2003, 10:55:28 AM »
man thats cool.... the biggest eye of any animal?

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« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2003, 11:07:15 AM »
That's a colossal squid.AH squid is the much more deadly Giant Prairie Squid.Sheesh.

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« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2003, 11:17:57 AM »
lol those damn thing are fricking huge! I remember watching the GIANT SQUID episode on Discovery channel after that i couldnt eat Calimari for quite sum time but now im like F-it i better it it before it eats me!
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« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2003, 12:31:27 PM »
'"We know so little about the marine environment in general. If animals like this are turning up, what's going to be at 3,000-meters (10,000-foot) depth. We don't know," O'Shea said. '
hmm....

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« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2003, 12:44:27 PM »
Oh man, hooks with 360 rotation?  Squid freaked me out when they only had suction cups and beaks... this thing's even worse.

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Holy Moly!
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2003, 01:03:52 PM »
Pasted here in case the link gets busted.

Deep sea monster squid found
Thursday, April 3, 2003 Posted: 7:59 AM EST (1259 GMT)
 
Little is known about the colossal squid but it is a bigger species than the giant squid. [/i]

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Reuters) -- A rare and dangerous squid with eyes the size of dinner plates and scores of razor-sharp hooks to snag its prey has been caught by fishermen off Antarctica, New Zealand scientists said on Thursday.

The half-grown female Suggestion: don't mess with a woman colossal squid is only the second intact example of the monster cephalopod known to have been found, said marine biologist Steve O'Shea of New Zealand's national museum.

"I've seen 105 giant squid, but seeing something like this is pretty sensational," O'Shea told Reuters.

A trawler caught the 150 kg, 330-pound squid in the sub-Antarctic Ross Sea about 3540 kilometers (2,200 miles) south of Wellington.

The squid was eating Patagonian Toothfish, which grow to two meters in length, when it was caught. It was dead when it was hawled into the trawler and the remains are now in the New Zealand national museum.

The body of the colossal squid is much bigger than the giant squid, which can weigh up to 900 kg, 2,000 pounds when fully grown . A giant squid's tentacles can be up to 13 meters long, compared with five meters on the recovered creature.

Comparisons are difficult because of the colossal squid's hostile environment and rarity. Five of the six previous discoveries have only been pieces inside sperm whale stomachs.

More dangerous
American marine biologist Kat Bolstad said the colossal squid was a more dangerous animal than the giant squid, the mythical monster of the deep that attacked Captain Nemo's Nautilus in Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea."

"This is a very aggressive animal and moves quickly. If you fell in the water next to it you would be in big trouble," said Bolstad.

The colossal squid finds food by literally glowing in the dark, deep waters to light up prey for its massive eyes -- the biggest of any animal.

But it is the colossal squid's weaponry that marks it out from its giant cousin.

Its eight arms and two tentacles have up to 25 teeth-like hooks -- deeply rooted into muscle and able to rotate 360 degrees -- as well as the usual suckers to ensure fish and Aces High pilots who are shot down over the squid's lair do not escape.

The hooks not only hold fish for the squid's two parrot-like beaks, but also are used to fend off attacks from hungry sperm whales, O'Shea said.

The species, whose scientific name is mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, was previously thought to have lurked at least 800 meters down in the freezing waters near Antarctica, but the specimen found a fortnight ago was near the surface.

O'Shea said the discovery raised questions about what else was down deep in the ocean.

"We know so little about the marine environment in general. If animals like this are turning up, what's going to be at 3,000-meters (10,000-foot) depth. We don't know," O'Shea said.

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« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2003, 01:23:45 PM »
First there was JAWS




Now for the First time ever




TENTACLES

at your nearest Long John Silvers


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« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2003, 01:30:15 PM »
http://www.stuff.co.nz/otago/0,2106,2378690a6017,00.html

Gonna go have a gander at it when they put it on display.

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« Reply #10 on: April 03, 2003, 01:35:03 PM »
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Originally posted by Dingbat
First there was JAWS




Now for the First time ever




TENTACLES



You're not far off :)

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« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2003, 01:49:41 PM »
If you would, please take some pictures, I believe they've only had one other complete one.

They are extremely rare to find and have never been found alive. They are usually found either washed up on the beach and partially decomposed or in parts within other sea creatures.

I have to wonder at their intelligence level, I know octopi are extremely intelligent, I've heard nothing on squid or giant squid ,or now, colossal squid.

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« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2003, 04:14:33 PM »
Yuk,

I poked at one in a bucket with a piece of wood when I was a kid, that bastige sprayed me back all over the face with black paint, you can imagine how much I was running and screaming at that time :D

PS: I saw a program about little blue & yellow squids (looked cute) in New Zealand or Australia, I forgot now. they said that the poison was so virulent it would cause total paralysis on a full grown human...and you only need to touch it. The thing was like 2 inch long.

Yuk Yuk Yuk!
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Saw
Dirty, nasty furriner.

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« Reply #13 on: April 03, 2003, 05:20:14 PM »
squids are not very intelligent, as their lifespan is extremely short.

Octopi on the other hand, have lifespans up to 6 years, and in tests they've shown to have intelligence similar to a dog/wolf. However, they SEEM to us to be more intelligent because they can do neat things like open jars and stuff, they have dexterity a dog cannot match.

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« Reply #14 on: April 03, 2003, 05:24:39 PM »
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Originally posted by Sikboy
You're not far off :)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679403558/qid=1049398426/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/102-8395524-9558533?v=glance&s=books

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