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Fishermen Net Rare Cephalopod Specimen

Posted by timothy on from the delicious-and-illuminating dept.

tewl points to this Reuters article on Yahoo!, which explains briefly the capture of "a giant specimen of a strange, light-emitting, deep sea cephalopod" by Spanish fishermen. The article says "[t]he octopus-like creature, a taningia danae, weighs in at 275 pounds, measures seven feet and is easily the biggest of its type discovered." Not quite a coelacanth, maybe, but a 7-foot-long light-emitting sea-creature is something I'd like to see.

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  1. Re:Awesome! by tewl · · Score: 2

    Me too, except I certainly hope I don't hook anything like that in the Charles River in Boston ;)

  2. Re:Awesome! by tewl · · Score: 2

    Nothing, just stating the fact that it's one of the most polluted bodies of water in the Northeast that I certainly hope nothing like that is living in it! :)