Monday, February 26, 2007

Tire-sized calamari rings? Half-ton squid reeled in


http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/02/22/colossal.squid.ap/index.html

In Wellington, New Zealand a fishing crew caught a colossal squid that weighed an estimate of 990 pounds and was about 39 feet long. This prove to be the biggest specimen ever landed. If we made calamari rings were made out of this squid, they would be the size of tractor tires. Colossal squid are estimated to grow up to 46 feet long. The squid found would be 330 pounds heavier than the next biggest specimen found. The frozen squid will be transported to New Zealand national museum, Te Papa to be preserved for further research.

1 comment:

Josh Stevenson said...

If hudge fish like this are reeled up who knows what great beasts could still be lurking were yet no man has gone before. I think we should put more research into understanding the depths