Calamari Anyone? 33

Posted by michael on Wednesday April 02, 2003 @12:48PM from the deep-fried-and-breaded dept.

small but... writes "A six-meter long specimen of a species of squid [Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni] previously only known by the stomach contents of sperm whales has been caught by a fishing vessel in Antarctic waters, and brought to the national museum of New Zealand. It has a huge beak, sharp swivelling hooks on its suckers, and is believed to be a juvenile. Adults of the species are thought to grow to as long as twelve meters. No reports indicate the presence of lasers; or, for that matter, anything I would consider a forehead."

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Squids and Sharks (Score:3, Funny)

by skeeter17 ( 586444 ) writes: on Wednesday April 02, 2003 @12:53PM (#5644994) Homepage

Unfortunately, this was not the shark commonly known as Sharkus Lazerentes which has been commonly refered to as "Sharks with little tiny lazer beams on their foreheads".

Sighting raises fear of giant killer squid! (Score:2)

by GeckoX ( 259575 ) writes:

Oh my god! Run for your lives!
- Re:Sighting raises fear of giant killer squid! (Score:1)
  
  by alnapp ( 321260 ) writes:
  
  In New Zealand: the calimari eats you!
April Fool's stories on 02/Apr are still not funny (Score:1)

by ch166 ( 462403 ) writes:

Read the date... Sheesh ! I thought we would have
had enough of these by now.
There's few things as lame... (Score:1)

by KDan ( 90353 ) writes:

As an April's fool joke on April 2nd...

Hooks on the tentacles... riiiiight... :-P

Daniel
- Re:There's few things as lame... (Score:4, Informative)
  
  by n9hmg ( 548792 ) writes: <n9hmg.hotmail@com> on Wednesday April 02, 2003 @02:16PM (#5645711) Homepage
  
  As an April's fool joke on April 2nd...
  I was getting ready to jab at Michael for posting a joke as real, but it appears that I'm the fool here. This thing exists, and it does have hooks. Google [google.com] led me to the " Tree of Life Web project [tolweb.org]"
  1. Tentacles
  1. Club with hooks.
  ...
  Comments
  Hooks are also present on the arms. This is the only genus in the Cranchiidae with arm hooks.
  
  as well as several other articles. Bummer of a dateline, though.
  
Lazers? (Score:4, Funny)

by Unknown Poltroon ( 31628 ) writes: <unknown_poltroon1sp@myahoo.com> on Wednesday April 02, 2003 @01:18PM (#5645238)

WHy the hell would a 30 foot squid want something as wimpy as a lazer?

- Re:Lazers? (Score:2)
  
  by Whatever Fits ( 262060 ) writes:
  
  Light Amplification by Ztimulated Emission of Radiation?
Alright... (Score:3, Funny)

by ActiveSX ( 301342 ) writes: on Wednesday April 02, 2003 @01:24PM (#5645277) Homepage

Who read the headline and thought it was about a merging of the Camino [mozilla.org] and Safari [apple.com] codebases?

- Camino? (Score:1)
  
  by Cyno01 ( 573917 ) writes:
  
  They should change the name again to Kamino, then at least they could get Taun We. ;-)
murderers (Score:3, Funny)

by DrSkwid ( 118965 ) writes: on Wednesday April 02, 2003 @01:32PM (#5645360) Journal

Dr O'Shea would sex the specimen

- Re:murderers (Score:1)
  
  by TheGreatGraySkwid ( 553871 ) writes:
  
  Cruel and Unusual. Not only do they gaffe the poor thing, but then some Doctor's got to go getting nasty with it...
Bah, this is nothing new (Score:5, Funny)

by VikingBerserker ( 546589 ) writes: on Wednesday April 02, 2003 @01:34PM (#5645374)

I remember seeing an artist's rendering of one of these before in a Japanese show.

They used a schoolgirl in the same film, probably for size comparison. Why she was naked I don't know, probably something to do with union regulations.

This is a serious threat to Linux (Score:2)

by tsa ( 15680 ) writes:

It hunts penguins! Let's be afraid...
Pictures (Score:5, Informative)

by xWeston ( 577162 ) writes: on Wednesday April 02, 2003 @01:40PM (#5645416)

There are pictures of it at these two stories

Stuff.co.nz [stuff.co.nz]

and

BBC [bbc.co.uk]

Actually, (Score:2, Informative)

by Sevn ( 12012 ) writes:

The full name of THIS [tolweb.org]
squid is Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni Robson. It's the
only species in it's genus, and it barely gets 2m
long. This doesn't even begin to touch Architeuthis
Clarkei (the giant squid). This is perhaps a really
lame attempt at an april fools joke?
- Re:Actually, (Score:2, Interesting)
  
  by ehetzner ( 94010 ) writes:
  
  That's 2m in MANTLE length, the mantle being, apparently, the muscle that surrounds the squid's body. That is, I believe, not including the length of the tentacles which is what they are discussing, and which are apparently 6m long in this specimen.
  - Re:Actually, (Score:3, Informative)
    
    by ASCIIMan ( 47627 ) writes:
    
    Actually, the mantle length refers to the length of the internal boney plate that cephalopods have. Six meters sounds about right for the body length of a squid with a two meter mantle. The squid's total length (including it's tentacles, but leaving out it's two arms), on the other hand, can probably reach 22 meters or so.
    Here's a nice picture [bbc.co.uk] for those of you needing a diagram.
No joke (Score:2)

by tsa ( 15680 ) writes:

Try Google [google.nl].
Sorry for the Dutch, but you get the links anyway.
Earth v5.5 Patch notes (Score:3, Funny)

by RealErmine ( 621439 ) writes: <commerce.wordhole@net> on Wednesday April 02, 2003 @01:54PM (#5645528)

This 'Colossal Squid' is just one of the new monsters resulting from the Earth v5.5 update patch (that's right, fewer versions than AOL). The developer saw that as the players attained higher levels on average, they were becoming complacent with the old monsters and needed a new challenge.

"We can't have inhabitants feeling too secure when swimming the Antarctic oceans. This new patch addresses the waning gameplay value of nude, sans-vessel, Antarctic seafaring," one member of the Dev. team said.

I, for one, will be camping this new monster spawn in hopes of collecting huge amounts of experience. I also hear that they have gold in their bellies and are particularly susceptible to deep fryers.

Good God, man! (Score:1)

by Glass of Water ( 537481 ) writes:

From the article: "While at Te Papa's Buckle St collections unit, Dr O'Shea would sex the specimen...."
Is that stasndard scientific procedure? He hardly even KNOWS the specimen!
First sighting ... (Score:1)

by Rip!ey ( 599235 ) writes:

A killer squid seen attacking fish in the Ross Sea last week may mark the first sighting of the world's largest and most aggressive squid species.

The squid was one of several caught on Antarctic longlines this season.

Somebody appears to be confused. Is it me?
- Re:First sighting ... (Score:3, Insightful)
  
  by nosferatu-man ( 13652 ) writes:
  
  "Sighting" in this context means "seen while alive".
  
  'jfb
Adult giant squid still never photographed alive (Score:3, Informative)

by selectspec ( 74651 ) writes: on Wednesday April 02, 2003 @03:52PM (#5646516)

The article is misleading. This guy has filmed giant squid larva, but never an adult giant squid. Nobody has yet filmed an adult giant squid.

Picies! (Score:3, Informative)

by Scrameustache ( 459504 ) writes: on Wednesday April 02, 2003 @04:04PM (#5646670) Homepage Journal

Get your picies here [nzherald.co.nz]!

This link will take you to an article with a picture of the clawy tentacle.

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn! (Score:2)

by Zaphod B ( 94313 ) writes:

Oh my God! They killed Cthulhu! YOU BASTARDS!
Hooks? (Score:2)

by Cyno01 ( 573917 ) writes:

Does anyone know if hooks are standard to (large?)squid suckers. I remember the hooks of Archetuthus Dux(sp?) being a big deal in Peter Benchly's The Beast(jaws with a squid) and i wasn't sure if those were fiction or not.
Peter Benchley wrote about it in Beast (Score:2)

by toybuilder ( 161045 ) writes:

The author of Jaws also wrote about Beast about the giant squid with hooks -- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679 403558/qid=1049352172/sr=1-13/ref=sr_1_13/104-8943 369-5878333?v=glance&s=books

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Squids and Sharks (Score:3, Funny)

Sighting raises fear of giant killer squid! (Score:2)

Re:Sighting raises fear of giant killer squid! (Score:1)

April Fool's stories on 02/Apr are still not funny (Score:1)

There's few things as lame... (Score:1)

Re:There's few things as lame... (Score:4, Informative)

Lazers? (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Lazers? (Score:2)

Alright... (Score:3, Funny)

Camino? (Score:1)

murderers (Score:3, Funny)

Re:murderers (Score:1)

Bah, this is nothing new (Score:5, Funny)

This is a serious threat to Linux (Score:2)

Pictures (Score:5, Informative)

Actually, (Score:2, Informative)

Re:Actually, (Score:2, Interesting)

Re:Actually, (Score:3, Informative)

No joke (Score:2)

Earth v5.5 Patch notes (Score:3, Funny)

Good God, man! (Score:1)

First sighting ... (Score:1)

Re:First sighting ... (Score:3, Insightful)

Adult giant squid still never photographed alive (Score:3, Informative)

Picies! (Score:3, Informative)

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn! (Score:2)

Hooks? (Score:2)

Peter Benchley wrote about it in Beast (Score:2)

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