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New Specie of Squid?
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| July 22, 2002
| Barbie Doll
Posted on 07/22/2002 11:32:20 AM PDT by Barbie Doll
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: calamari; cryptozoology; giantsquid; kraken
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To: Barbie Doll
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posted on
07/22/2002 11:42:22 AM PDT
by
EBUCK
To: Barbie Doll
Looks like Architeuthis to me. But I'm no biologist.
To: The_Victor
I was expecting Terry McAuliffe?
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posted on
07/22/2002 11:46:03 AM PDT
by
Robear
To: Barbie Doll
This brings up something I wonder about periodically. In the late 70s giant squids were a legend not yet accepted as fact. Only a couple of bodies had been recovered, nobody was sure what to make of them. They even had an "In Search of..." episode about them (given how far out on the fringe and often incorrect that show was tells you a lot about it). Somewhere inbetween then and now lots of giant squid bodies started showing up, it's totally accepted now, though nobody has seen any alive yet. So what happened inbetween? And why are dead giant squid suddenly common place?
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posted on
07/22/2002 11:47:18 AM PDT
by
discostu
To: Robear
You're looking to far up the food chain to find TMcA.
To: discostu
If we're talking about giant squid that would rip apart a whaling ship or drown a whale as depicted in the frontispiece illustration of a Melville novel, then we still haven't seen one. All the same, this specimen is kind of large.
To: discostu
Their primary food is the shark, and the sharks have been eradicated by fishing.
Their secondary food is the deep sea mammals such as small whales / dolphins / seals diving deeply, and they are gone too.
Cheers.
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posted on
07/22/2002 12:15:04 PM PDT
by
Sundog
To: discostu
This may be like the case of the state of Connecticut. Their official stance is that they don't have any Moose.
Every time one is hit by a vehicle, they say "well, we HAD one".
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posted on
07/22/2002 1:23:18 PM PDT
by
Deguello
To: Barbie Doll
Hillary looks a lot better without that black suit.
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posted on
07/22/2002 1:24:45 PM PDT
by
Silly
To: Barbie Doll
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posted on
07/22/2002 1:27:48 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
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To: Jeremiah Jr
D*mn cephalopods.
To: farmnlogit
So I left the "s" out. It's not the end of the world, ok?
To: Barbie Doll
Ewww. I surely wouldn't want to carry around a squid to pay for a hamburger. OTOW, when someone receives payment for services rendered, we could now call it a "squid-pro-quo"
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To: farmnlogit
Brains? ;o)
To: Barbie Doll
Are you trying to tell us something?
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posted on
07/22/2002 3:44:26 PM PDT
by
Redcloak
To: Redcloak
Woo-hoo! Gotta love those brainy blonds!
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posted on
07/22/2002 3:49:46 PM PDT
by
Stultis
To: Redcloak
Are you trying to post a pic? It didn't work.
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