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Huge Squid Caught, Could be Biggest Ever

Posted February 22, 2007 2:53 PM

From MSNBC.com: Science:

A fishing crew has caught a colossal squid that could weigh a half-ton and prove to be the biggest specimen ever landed, a fisheries official said Thursday. The squid, weighing an estimated 990 pounds and about 39 feet long, took two hours to land in Antarctic waters, New Zealand Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said.

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Re: Huge Squid Caught, Could be Biggest Ever

02/26/2007 12:12 AM

This may be the biggest squid ever caught, but there is, in the Museum of Natural History, in South Kensington, London, a model of one found dead on the beach in Northumbria, UK, which is close to twice that size. Incidentally there was a dead whale just along the beach from the squid, and covered in sucker marks.

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