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Montevideo, May 2nd 2024 - 13:04 UTC

Tag: John Bennett

  • Thursday, September 18th 2014 - 02:55 UTC

    NZ scientists examine giant squid caught in Antarctica' Ross Sea

    The squid is a female, and its eight arms are each well over a meter long. Its two tentacles would have been perhaps double that length if not damaged.

    It was a calm morning in Antarctica's remote Ross Sea, during the season when the sun never sets, when Capt. John Bennett and his crew hauled up a creature with tentacles like fire hoses and eyes like dinner plates from a mile below the surface. A colossal squid: 350 kilograms, as long as a minibus and one of the sea’s most elusive species.