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New Deep Sea Squid

Posted by Hemos on from the where's-peter-benchely dept.

texchanchan writes: "Yahoo reports on a newly discovered species of deep-sea squid, quoting scientists as saying the creatures are very different from normal giant squids. 'New species are a dime a dozen. This is fundamentally different' in behavior and appearance -- with 10 identical long skinny arms and a jellyfish-like hunting strategy. 'We don't know of any cephalopod that has arms like that.' --Michael Vecchione of the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service. 'I had never seen anything like this creature,' oceanographer William Sager of Texas A&M says."

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  1. New squid? by Zocalo · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Does anyone know how this new squid is going to help my web cache performance, and where are the changelog and download URLs?

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  2. News for nerds, squid that matter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Is this news? If I had wanted information about the latest squid releases, I would have gone to freshsquid.

  3. Re:Apeal to authority by autopr0n · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    What does my ablity to spell have to do with their ablity to classify sea creatures?

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  4. Well by autopr0n · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Actualy the ablity to spell has little to do with that. According to the standardized tests I've taken, I'm in the top 7% of collage students.

    That's totaly irrelevent, however. As we are not talking about my ablity to classify squids, but rather the researchers in comparison to some slashdotter who read a Yahoo! news story about it. If you had any kind of intelegence, you would realize this. My intelegence has nothing to do with their ablity to classify squid.

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