Thursday, February 22, 2007

Very Big Squid


Oh dear. Crab season came and went and I never even blogged about it. But the dungeness crab was mighty tasty. It might be our last crab till next season. It was a nice way to go out.

But on to bigger things... COLOSSAL SQUID...

Check out the SFGate article about a mighty and Colossal Squid caught off the coast of New Zealand. The squid is 990 lbs, 39 feet long. They say that if the squid was made into calamari, the rings would be the size of tractor tires.

We're all more ore less familiar with the Giant Squid -- but bigger than that is the Colossal Squid- so rare that it battles sperm whales. It has the largest eye of any animal. And a very mean hook.

1 comment:

Lily said...

really? THAT's a colossal squid? it's so small!