Freepers of a certain age will remember this.
Posted on 08/27/2018 10:12:26 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
A monster-like 4.2 meter-long (13ft) giant squid – which brings to mind the mysterious kraken – has been discovered on a Wellington beach by shocked New Zealand brothers out for a morning dive.
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I think there’s a giant squid hanging from the ceiling of a museum in Chicago, that’s quite a lot bigger. Memory is a bit fuzzy on that, I was a kid at the time.
Freepers of a certain age will remember this.
James Mason as Captain Nemo?
Thirty-five years later and it still gives me nightmares.
And Kirk Douglas as Ned Land.
My......that’s a big one. (From the movie Dirty Harry after scorpio the killer see’s Harry’s 44 magnum....LOL)
Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?
:)
Looks right out of a movie.
Of course...NOTHING dies....ever!!!
Sid the squid..!!!
They can get real big, but are a favorite meal of and no match for a Sperm Whale.
There is a cryptozoology museum in Portland, ME. I don’t recall the dates, but the Giant Squid was on the previously unrecognized list right up there with the Giant Panda.
Probably. But it would make some great bait to keep in the freezer.
Give it a southerner, we can bread and deep fry (or smoke) anything.
You know that’s why there are no more Sasquatch in the south, right?
My favorite Disney Movie growing up.
I am a complete teetotaler these days ... back when I had a bit more of the “warrior spirit” in me over in Okinawa, that dried and salted squid legs and a large mug of draft was the perfect end to the week.
WOW!
Did an image search to find what I was looking at in your second photo.
Like, WOW!
Cephalopods, on the other hand, trigger their colour changes via their nervous system, which is a far more rapid method of transmitting signals across the body. At this point a video showed exactly how music with a heavy baseline can trigger a cephalopod skin sample to change colour to the beat, as the nerve endings are stimulated.
Following on from this, Jon drew the audience’s attention to what it was in the large jars in front of them. In these jars were the remains of squid arms and tentacles. When these specimens were removed it was clear exactly what the difference between a cephalopod arm and tentacle actually is. Cephalopod arms have suckers down their entire length, while the tentacles only have suckers at their tip.
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Sharp ring-lined suckers found on the arms (n.b. not tentacles) of some cephalopods.
The range of different types of suckers that cephalopods possess was highlighted through these specimens. It was clear that some cephalopods have arms covered with many round suckers that are also lined with sharp teeth like projections. Others, such as the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) have even more vicious looking ones, each wielding a single large claw projection rising out from their centre that can also rotated.
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/community/nature-live/blog/2014/08/21/cephalopod-article—peter-style
Having these impressive adaptations allows the cephalopods to not only grab onto but also hold onto their prey when subduing them. For these reasons, coupled with the strength of cephalopod limbs, it is clear why many researchers choose to wear chainmail, akin to that worn my mediaeval knights, for protection when diving with these animals, just in case things do take a nasty turn.
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