AFP (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0i-0&fd=R&url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hPmtSQVkv5mQ_9mnzwwum1AjMPYA&cid=1145837232&ei=oR3qR_vSKYayyQTD45Bl&usg=AFrqEze0bX717mv7jQVpSsV2w59cH65wPA)
Paris' latest star is no damp squid (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hPmtSQVkv5mQ_9mnzwwum1AjMPYA&cid=1145837232&ei=oR3qR_vSKYayyQTD45Bl&usg=AFrqEzfZXQHVuotet9uJ3nzN9NefIgw0pQ)
AFP - 15 hours ago
The squid was hauled up in January 2000 at a depth of 615 metres (2000 feet) by fishermen off New Zealand. It has been baptised Wheke, after Te Wheke o ...


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Just in the event this link goes down ... as these things so often do over time .... I've (SOS) taken the liberty of embedding the image in the initial posting.

Wow.

That turned out rather well, didn't it?

forget cremation! i wanna be plasticized!

?

.... I sent one to them many years ago and never heard anything about it; this certainly doesn't look like it though! Gunther will not be happy .... but then again ...

WTF!

"3 subspecies?" I thought Architeuthis was monospecific?????


J

"3 subspecies?" I thought Architeuthis was monospecific?????


well, there's the kind that attacks sailboats, the kind that attacks fictional subs, and the kind that we fill with resin...

well...there's also the one that can only be measured in buses.

"3 subspecies?" I thought Architeuthis was monospecific?????


J

Depends on who you ask. One seems most likely to me, but 3 is a popular number, too... And there's some list of 7 or more "species" because everyone wants an Architeuthis named after them, apparently.

The eyes are just wrong, for the rest a formidable attempt! And I can easily go and see it :wink:

I've just heard; it is the same specimen that we sent over years ago. The beast resurfaces!

Neat!

NZ plastinated squid on display in France (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/3-0&fd=R&url=http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/200803/s2201097.htm%3Ftab%3Dpacific&cid=0&ei=BBLuR7KZPJDcywSgzZTgBA&usg=AFrqEze5jX9UH39OLEfZhzFaPWXkEnO-Wg)
Radio Australia, Australia - Mar 27, 2008
France's National Museum of Natural History has unveiled the world's first plastinated squid -- a six-and-a-half metre-long deep-sea beast, donated by New ...


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BBC News (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/3i-0&fd=R&url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7322217.stm&cid=0&ei=8AbyR9qqMoq-ywTK3Z2iCg&usg=AFrqEze1sGPWOAOUFezc4_s-hblEcflwuQ)
Giant preserved squid on display (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/3-0&fd=R&url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7322217.stm&cid=0&ei=8AbyR9qqMoq-ywTK3Z2iCg&usg=AFrqEzcIj0OMmCien6-IBVVtepnc5ZGR8w)
BBC News, UK - 23 hours ago
The squid, 6.5m (21.5ft) long, has undergone plastination, which means its liquids have been replaced by a polymer. The process, which took two-and-a-half ...


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Giant squid on display in Paris (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/8-0&fd=R&url=http://www.gadling.com/2008/03/31/giant-squid-on-display-in-paris/print/&cid=0&ei=8AbyR9qqMoq-ywTK3Z2iCg&usg=AFrqEzc-ZMbECXNiXyUEW31Pk4qzvRLgHQ)
Gadling, CA - 14 hours ago
Hanging from the ceiling is a 6.5 meter (21.5 foot) long giant squid, perfectly preserved by way of plastination. The method for preserving cadavers first ...


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