View Full Version : Sizing an archi?


Toren
Aug 21st, 2006, 07:06pm
from
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/15287095.htm

"The tentacle, reaching about 13 feet, was about the diameter of a broomstick and bore suckers only on its end. The arms were about four feet long and were covered in suckers, the largest about the size of a nickel."

How large/long could we expect the entire squid to be?

monty
Aug 21st, 2006, 11:11pm
from
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/15287095.htm

"The tentacle, reaching about 13 feet, was about the diameter of a broomstick and bore suckers only on its end. The arms were about four feet long and were covered in suckers, the largest about the size of a nickel."

How large/long could we expect the entire squid to be?

There's another thread on this, where I posted a link to a video clip that has Eric Hochberg examining the tentacle and estimating the length...

http://www.tonmo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7091

ob
Aug 22nd, 2006, 05:12am
It's 0,87843 London bus lengths

erich orser
Aug 22nd, 2006, 06:57am
Yeah? How many LA Hummer lengths?

ob
Aug 22nd, 2006, 08:07am
Stretched, or non stretched? (The Hummer, that is)