First Live Giant Squid Photographed

Post by **Canis** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:29 pm

Ryoki wrote:
Canis wrote:Calamari anyone?

the article wrote:Calamari as big as car tires might sound an appetizing idea, but jumbo-sized squid usually contain high levels of ammonia and their meat is said to taste like floor cleaner.

Floor cleaner, eh? I wonder why the sperm whales love'm so much?

Post by **Pext** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:43 pm

i don't think they actually taste stuff.

Post by **Cooldown** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:51 pm

pyro what animal is in that first picture and wha tknid of turtles are those

Post by **Transient** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:53 pm

Deathshroud wrote:I would love to see a Megalodon eat a whale, or a boat or something. Kinda wierd to think how prehistoric animals would exist in today's world.

*cough* Crocodile *cough*

Post by **Transient** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:54 pm

Cooldown wrote:pyro what animal is in that first picture

I don't remember the name of it, but it's from a CGI Discovey channel type pogram. I vaguely remember watching it.

edit: son of a bitch, my "r" key is buggy...

Post by **Nightshade** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:03 pm

R00k wrote:That's almost 70 feet long! !

I saw some still shots in a documentary of chunks of a dead squid that had washed up on a beach somewhere. The marine biologists that were examining it estimated that it was about 135 FEET LONG.