A flock of gulls feeding on the carcass alerted the crew to the remains. Their first thought, said crew members, was that the animal was a seal but after motoring closer to it they recognized the chewed-up squid...
(Giant squid expert and Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History curator Eric) Hochberg said there's likely several squid along the California coast, but because the animal swims at depths of thousands of feet, it's almost never seen and difficult to study...
"The animal is just so big and so rare ... it's very easy for people to get a little nervous about what it is, and the stories go from there," Hochberg said.
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Let's just hope that it's not the first of thousands of giant squids washing ashore...
On the other hand I wonder what one of those tree-trunk-size slabs of squiddy deliciousness would taste like grilled?
Giant squids are totally cool.
You're totally cool, DCD!
Fry that sucker up!
Well, thank you! (Even if it was said with a hint of sarcasm)
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