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Calamari Anyone?

Posted by michael on from the deep-fried-and-breaded dept.

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."

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  1. Squids and Sharks by skeeter17 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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".

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  2. Lazers? by Unknown+Poltroon · · Score: 3, Funny

    WHy the hell would a 30 foot squid want something as wimpy as a lazer?

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  3. Bah, this is nothing new by VikingBerserker · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  4. Pictures by xWeston · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are pictures of it at these two stories

    Stuff.co.nz

    and

    BBC

  5. Earth v5.5 Patch notes by RealErmine · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  6. Re:There's few things as lame... by n9hmg · · Score: 4, Informative

    As an April's fool joke on April 2nd...
    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.
    ...
    Comments
    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.