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small but... writes "A six-meter long specimen of a species of squid [Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni] previously only known by the stomach contents of sperm whales has been caught by a fishing vessel in Antarctic waters, and brought to the national museum of New Zealand. It has a huge beak, sharp swivelling hooks on its suckers, and is believed to be a juvenile. Adults of the species are thought to grow to as long as twelve meters. No reports indicate the presence of lasers; or, for that matter, anything I would consider a forehead."
Unfortunately, this was not the shark commonly known as Sharkus Lazerentes which has been commonly refered to as "Sharks with little tiny lazer beams on their foreheads".
~skeeter
WHy the hell would a 30 foot squid want something as wimpy as a lazer?
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Who read the headline and thought it was about a merging of the Camino and Safari codebases?
Dr O'Shea would sex the specimen
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I remember seeing an artist's rendering of one of these before in a Japanese show.
They used a schoolgirl in the same film, probably for size comparison. Why she was naked I don't know, probably something to do with union regulations.
There are pictures of it at these two stories
Stuff.co.nz
and
BBC
The full name of THIS
squid is Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni Robson. It's the
only species in it's genus, and it barely gets 2m
long. This doesn't even begin to touch Architeuthis
Clarkei (the giant squid). This is perhaps a really
lame attempt at an april fools joke?
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
This 'Colossal Squid' is just one of the new monsters resulting from the Earth v5.5 update patch (that's right, fewer versions than AOL). The developer saw that as the players attained higher levels on average, they were becoming complacent with the old monsters and needed a new challenge.
"We can't have inhabitants feeling too secure when swimming the Antarctic oceans. This new patch addresses the waning gameplay value of nude, sans-vessel, Antarctic seafaring," one member of the Dev. team said.
I, for one, will be camping this new monster spawn in hopes of collecting huge amounts of experience. I also hear that they have gold in their bellies and are particularly susceptible to deep fryers.
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As an April's fool joke on April 2nd...
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I was getting ready to jab at Michael for posting a joke as real, but it appears that I'm the fool here. This thing exists, and it does have hooks. Google led me to the " Tree of Life Web project"
1. Tentacles
1. Club with hooks.
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Hooks are also present on the arms. This is the only genus in the Cranchiidae with arm hooks.
as well as several other articles. Bummer of a dateline, though.
The article is misleading. This guy has filmed giant squid larva, but never an adult giant squid. Nobody has yet filmed an adult giant squid.
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"Sighting" in this context means "seen while alive".
'jfb
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This link will take you to an article with a picture of the clawy tentacle.
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