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September 28, 2005
Best news day ever! (Updated)
That is, if you love giant squids, and severely dislike Tom Delay.
So, a couple of Japanese biologists got supremely lucky when they shot the first ever video footage of a live giant squid! The giant squid, Architeuthis Dux to its friends, gets caught up in fishing nets all the time, so there's no shortage of specimens, and fishermen have snapped photos of them at the surface before. What's been lacking until now has been any observation of the creatures in their natural deep-water habitat. This is so huge! Five year-old me is positively giddy about this. So is 26 year-old me. Now all we need to do is find evidence of a living Carcharodon Megalodon.
Also, how come nobody ever told me there was a such thing as a colossal squid?
The other thing is that Tom Delay is officially being indicted. And it looks like Abramoff is next, but maybe for something a little more sinister than conspiracy.
Of course, all the good news is slightly offest by the possibility of hyper-intelligent porpoises armed with toxic darts roaming the open ocean.
Update: Oh, hell yes. Someone has a Squidblog.
Posted by matt at September 28, 2005 02:52 PM
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