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Oz fishermen are squids in
AUSTRALIAN fishermen were squids in when they hauled this 20-foot long sea monster from the ocean.
Skipper Rangi Pene said the 500-pound giant squid was already dead when it was caught in the trawler’s nets last night off Australia’s southeastern coast waters, which plummet to depths of 1,640 feet.
Squids in ... catch of the day
Paul McCoy, a fisheries research biologist, said it took 10 men to lift the squid onto a stretcher and place it in a storage freezer in the city of Portland.
Museum Victoria will collect the creature this week.
Mr McCoy said analysis by the museum would determine the type of squid, its age and possibly how it died.
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FUN SQUID FACTS
- The giant squid remains largely a mystery to scientists despite being the biggest invertebrate on Earth. Their inhospitable deep-sea habitat has made them uniquely difficult to study, and almost everything scientists know about them is from carcasses that have washed up on beaches or been hauled in by fishermen.
- The largest of these elusive giants ever found measured 59 feet (18 metres) in length and weighed nearly a ton (900 kg).
- Squid are among the fastest invertebrates on Earth speeding through the water at up to 24mph.
- Research indicates that squid cannot smell, they have no noses.
- Squid eyes are similar to fish eyes. They have no eyelids but control the amount of light coming into the eye by opening and closing their slitted pupil.
- Ever been told you've got Squid eye? It means your eye is all messed up and people can't tell which way or what you are looking at.
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