YES!!! Giant squids DO exist!

[KenpoEMT]

hehehe...my day is now complete!

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050927/sc_afp/scienceanimalssquid_050927231557

PARIS (AFP) - Japanese zoologists have made the first recording of a live giant squid, one of the strangest and most elusive creatures in the world.

The size of a bus, with vast eyes and a querulous beak, Architeuthis has long nourished myth and literature, most memorably in Jules Vernes' "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," in which a squid tried to engulf the submarine Nautilus with its suckered tentacles.

Until now, the only evidence of giant squids was extraordinarily rare -- from dead squids that washed up on remote shores or got snagged on a long-line fish hook or from ships' crews who spotted the deep-sea denizen as it made a sortie near the surface.

In 2003, New Zealand marine biologists laid a sex trap.

They ground up some squid gonads, believing that the scent would drive male giant squids wild as the creatures migrated through New Zealand waters.

The hope was that a camera would squirt out the pureed genitals and a passing squid, driven into a sexual frenzy, would then mate with the lens -- a project that, some may be relieved to hear, never came to fruition.

New Zealand Biologists have some peculiar ideas about sex traps.

That trap wouldn't have worked on me either. I can't imagine ground up ovaries squirting out of a camera lens to be something that I would find so arousing that I would attempt to mate with the lens...

...then again, it has been awhile.

 

[Tgace]

calamari anyone?

 

[arnisador]

calamari anyone?

Enough for all of New Zealand!

 

[MA-Caver]

(yawn) ok now if they can do this for Nessie and the Sasquatch then we'll have no more mysteries...

 

[shesulsa]

I married Sasquatch - I can testify that he lives and breathes ... and ... stinks ... and screeches .... and ... yeah ....:uhyeah:

 

[mrhnau]

(yawn) ok now if they can do this for Nessie and the Sasquatch then we'll have no more mysteries...

Next time you go caving, take a cat with you. Take some underground pictures. Publish, and claim its a rare hairy giant cave slug. Start a new mystery hehe...

any chance of you updating your caving thread anytime soon?


MrH