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New Zealand divers were searching for a spot to dive when they happened upon an impressive, and kind of creepy-looking, giant squid:
"After we went for a dive we went back to [the squid] and got a tape measure out, and it measured 4.2 meters [13 feet] long," one of the divers, Daniel Aplin, told the New Zealand Herald.
A representative from the New Zealand Department of Conservation told the Herald that the divers most likely found a giant squid (Architeuthis dux) and not a colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni). [Photos of the Stunning Deep-Sea Squid Feeding]
Both species of squid are formidable sea creatures, with giant squid typically reaching 16 feet (5 m) long, according to the Smithsonian, and the colossal squid reaching over 30 feet (10 m) long, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Source: https://www.livescience.com/63444-mysterious-dead-giant-squid.html
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday August 29 2018, @10:45PM (2 children)
And yet, not enough for a dept. line.
Anyway, it's 42 decimeters long, that should certainly answer something. But only for metric people, bad luck for imperialists with their 13 feet. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Thursday August 30 2018, @12:38AM (1 child)
whats-that-over-there?
it's-a-big-squid?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday August 30 2018, @06:04AM
From the tentacles dept.
Formally accurate, but generates associations.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.