Giant Squid CAUGHT!!

[Thump]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070222/ap_on_fe_st/new_zealand_colossal_squid_4

 

[DaytonBuck]

If calamari rings were made from the squid they would be the size of tractor tires, he added.

 

[coastalbuck]

Calamari for everyone....

 

[SanAntonioBuck]

MMM, Calamari!!!

 

[Taosman]

As a one time scuba diver I can tell you that squid are amazing creatures and fun to watch!
But, that thing is just a brutal killer! Much worse than any great white shark!
There have reports of Giant Squid teeth marks on Blue Whales!
It's the thing of nightmares! :chompy:

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

Thump must not read, it was a colossal squid, not merely a giant squid.

 

[Thump]

Thump must not read, it was a colossal squid, not merely a giant squid.

 

[buckeyegrad]

Coelacanth--Check
Giant Squid--Check
Kraken--You're Next!

 

[coastalbuck]

As a one time scuba diver I can tell you that squid are amazing creatures and fun to watch!
But, that thing is just a brutal killer! Much worse than any great white shark!
There have reports of Giant Squid teeth marks on Blue Whales!
It's the thing of nightmares! :chompy:

Question is... do you think it got so large from eating cloned Patagonian Toothfish???

 

[scooter1369]

Coelacanth--Check
Giant Squid--Check
Kraken--You're Next!

What? When does the Leviathen fall into the pecking order?

 

[buckeyegrad]

What? When does the Leviathen fall into the pecking order?

5th, right after Mermaids

 

[scooter1369]

5th, right after Mermaids

I dig me some Mermaid.

My luck would dictate they look like the hideous beasts in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, though. Not so much Mermaids, but more like Seahags.

 

[Taosman]

As the old joke goes:

"What does a Giant Squid Eat?"

"Any frickin' thing it can!" They are nightmarish cannibals!

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A piece of sperm whale skin damaged by squid suckers in a life and death battle.[/FONT]​

How big can a squid get? Estimates based on peices of carcasses found in the belly's of sperm whales range up to one hundred feet. One unconfirmed story, though, suggests they might get even larger. One night during World War II a British Admiralty trawler was lying off the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean. One of the crew, A. G. Starkey, was up on deck, alone, fishing, when he saw something in the water:

"As I gazed, fascinated, a circle of green light glowed in my area of illumination. This green unwinking orb I suddenly realized was an eye. The surface of the water undulated with some strange disturbance. Gradually I realized that I was gazing at almost point-black​

 

[scooter1369]

As the old joke goes:

"What does a Giant Squid Eat?"

"Any frickin' thing it can!" They are nightmarish cannibals!

That's an old joke?

 

[MolGenBuckeye]

That's an old joke?

I always thought the punch line was something about suckers and sperm whales, but maybe I had a different book of ancient Inuit humor. :p