Scientists stare into eyes of a giant squid

Scientists probe giant squid sex secrets
ABC Online, Australia - Jun 2, 2008
(Fisheries Victoria) Victorian scientists are preparing to dissect a giant squid caught off the state's south-west coast last week, hoping to find out more ...
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Scientists build mind-reading computer
Computerworld New Zealand, New Zealand - Jun 9, 2008
By Carrie-Ann Skinner London | Monday, 9 June, 2008 The world's media explored every aspect of New Zealand's giant squid defrosting, and some of these ...

Giant squid has world's largest eyes
Arizona Daily Star, AZ - Jun 1, 2008
AP WELLINGTON, New Zealand ? Marine scientists studying the carcass of a rare colossal squid said Wednesday they had measured its eye at about 11 inches ...

Giant squid netted off Australia
Edmonton Sun, Canada - May 27, 2008
Biologist Paul McCoy said it took 10 men to lift the squid onto a stretcher and place it in a freezer to await scientists.
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Whales are 'cheetahs of the deep'
BBC News, UK - May 15, 2008
By Matt Walker Super-fast pilot whales have been observed sprinting after prey, likely to include giant squid. The rapid pursuit has brought comparisons ...
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Giant squid recovered, preserved
Cayman Net News, Cayman Islands - May 21, 2008
The Central Caribbean Maritime Institute (CCMI) reported this week that a giant squid, over seven feet (2.5m) in length, and now the fourth specimen known ...

IS IT SAFE TO GO BACK IN THE WATER?
Surfline.com Surf News, CA - Jun 4, 2008
"One Mexican scientist, Dr. Leonardo Castillo, believes that possibly there could be a giant school of squid in this area," Dedina said. ...

Using Fossils to Find Facts
Medill Reports, IL - May 22, 2008
The giant squid is real, and still lives. It has a long and lean head and can measure between 33 and 44 feet long, about as long as a school bus, ...

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Scientists stand in a thawing bath as they inspect the eye of a the colossal squid at Te Papa Museum in Wellington

Paul Larter in Brisbane

The biggest squid to be captured had a face that only a mother, or perhaps a marine biologist, could love —- until, perhaps, one had gazed into its eyes, which were said yesterday to be the largest on the planet.

After days of careful defrosting scientists in New Zealand began to uncover the mysteries of the rare colossal squid, including an eye that measured 27cm (11in) in diameter, which would have been 40cm when it was alive —- as big as a beachball.

The eye, with a lens the size of an orange, was found to be intact as scientists pored over a creature that was 8m (26ft) long and weighed almost 500kg (1,100lb) when it was caught accidentally in the Ross Sea, off the northern coast of Antarctica last year.

Kat Bolstad, a squid specialist at the Auckland University of Technology, said that the eye was the largest in the animal kingdom.

“This is the only intact eye [of a colossal squid] that's ever been found. It's spectacular,” said Ms Bolstad, who was one of ten international scientists who examined the squid in Te Papa Tongarewa museum in Wellington.

A webcast of the operation was shown live to about 100,000 viewers and the squid will be put on display eventually at the museum.

The squid, believed to be a female, is the biggest specimen yet taken of the deep-water species Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni — and was every bit the frightening predator portrayed in 20,000 Leagues under the Sea.

It would have used six swivelling hooks mounted on the club-like ends of its tentacles to snare its prey. Farther up the tentacles, up to 19 fixed hooks with three razor points would have helped it to hold on to large quarry, which would be sliced into thumb-sized pieces and fed to its beaked mouth.

Beaks recovered from the stomachs of whales have been much larger than that examined yesterday, suggesting that even more monstrous creatures lurk in the inky depths.

“We certainly haven't seen the largest specimen yet,” Steve O'Shea, of the Auckland University of Technology, said. “Another individual may be as large as 750kg.”

Although it will avoid the fate of so many of its relatives that wind up as calamari, Tsunemi Kubodera, a Japanese squid specialist, said that he had tasted a piece of colossal squid. The verdict: edible but bitter.

Kimberly, thats because New Zealand is really cool

mike, london,

read Kon-Tiki Thor Heyerdahl saw a very large luminesce eye staring at him one night as the raft drifted across the pacific

stephen lasalle, atascadero , ca

I'm glad they specified the Ross Sea. Isn't every coast the northern coast in Antarctica?

Kurogo, Northern Coast, Antarctica

i thought that this article was reeally cool.

kimberly, clinton, usa

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