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I bet this squid was all like nooooo they be stealin' my sea bass

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/02/22/colossal.squid.ap/index.html

I guess leaving the poor thing be was out of the question...

― Edward III, Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

The fishermen were catching Patagonian toothfish...

!!!!!!! WTF

...sold under the name Chilean sea bass

disappointing

― nickalicious, Thursday, 22 February 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, are these guys getting a pass just because they caught a colossal squid?

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 23 February 2007 00:26 (eighteen years ago)

the squid was eating a hooked toothfish when it was hauled from the deep

poor giant squid :(

― rrrobyn, Friday, 23 February 2007 01:03 (eighteen years ago)

One article said that, if it were to be made into calamari, the rings would be the size of monster truck tires!
I, too, feel sorry for the colossal squid.

― aimurchie, Friday, 23 February 2007 01:24 (eighteen years ago)

i bet they are not going to fry the squid up though and have an entertaining calamari ring eating contest either

― rrrobyn, Friday, 23 February 2007 01:28 (eighteen years ago)

I was just commenting on something I read. The thought of the squid being dragged from it's deep, lovely place to be dissected is ...controversial, for me. I understand why scientists want to study it, but I feel like it's unfair to the squid.
It's also a colossal squid, not giant.
I also was discussing this this evening while eating calamari....

― aimurchie, Friday, 23 February 2007 02:58 (eighteen years ago)

CAn this thread plese have the seal pic?

― .stet., Friday, 23 February 2007 02:59 (eighteen years ago)

oh, what i said wasn't meant to be snarky at all, aimurchie! it was more an extension of my original sadness over the old, giant lug and how it will no longer be swimming in the uncharted deeps :(

i do like calamari however. just not tire-sized ones.

― rrrobyn, Friday, 23 February 2007 03:20 (eighteen years ago)

I also was discussing this this evening while eating calamari....

So one minute you're all like "poor colossal squid how could they" and the next you're like "hey you mini squid GET IN MY BELLY"

― Edward III, Friday, 23 February 2007 03:27 (eighteen years ago)

http://entimg.msn.com/i/mu/s/Seal/seal_150x200.jpg

Heh? Heh? Eh? Huh? Heh?

― Abbott, Friday, 23 February 2007 03:28 (eighteen years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/ihasabucket.jpg

all threads should have the seal pic

― Edward III, Friday, 23 February 2007 03:30 (eighteen years ago)

He looks like my puppy! I best give puppy a bucket and see what happens.

― Abbott, Friday, 23 February 2007 03:33 (eighteen years ago)

take pictures!
then post them so poeple can caption them! on the interenets!

― rrrobyn, Friday, 23 February 2007 03:37 (eighteen years ago)

seriously - though maybe not on this thread

― rrrobyn, Friday, 23 February 2007 03:38 (eighteen years ago)

Check this weirdo out!

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f86/igotabeefpastry/Snitterdaemon2.jpg

― Abbott, Friday, 23 February 2007 03:39 (eighteen years ago)

i love how there's giant squid and then there's COLOSSAL SQUID

― latebloomer, Friday, 23 February 2007 03:40 (eighteen years ago)

next there will be STUPENDOUS SQUID

― Edward III, Friday, 23 February 2007 03:42 (eighteen years ago)

OT Behemoth!

― Abbott, Friday, 23 February 2007 03:48 (eighteen years ago)

while we're on the cephalopod tip:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070209-octopus-video.html

― latebloomer, Friday, 23 February 2007 03:52 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks, rrobyn!
I really WAS talking about the sadness of the old lug being dragged up from the depths, while I was eating calamari!
So, yes, a collosal squid has been "captured" and now scientists can view it. I hope this lends a healthy, happy life to the other collosal squid, whose lives we know nothing about, so that they can remain colossal squids while we remain colossal humans.
I think it is both funny and painful to compare the squid to both food and a vehicle of transportation.

I felt sad because this collosal squid, no matter what, was still alive while they were pulling it onto the deck of the boat. Can you imagine being dragged, suddenly, into the ocean and dying ?

it's the Anna Nicole of colossal squids! Except, as much as i love Anna Nicole and her intentions, the collosal squid probably led a better life. And a much longer one.

― aimurchie, Friday, 23 February 2007 03:55 (eighteen years ago)

I can't spell collosall when i spel colassall etc, and i do apologize. Sea Creatures!

― aimurchie, Friday, 23 February 2007 03:59 (eighteen years ago)

next there will be STUPENDOUS SQUID

I'm still waiting for:
http://www.pathguy.com/cthulhu6_s.jpg

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 23 February 2007 04:04 (eighteen years ago)

still waiting for capture of this creature
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf900/f956/f95625eef61.jpg

― gershy, Friday, 23 February 2007 04:35 (eighteen years ago)

!!!

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 23 February 2007 04:36 (eighteen years ago)

http://blog.micah-and-susan.com/archive/images/zoidberg.jpg

http://www.getafreemonkey.com/scans/sea_monkeys_full.jpg

― Oilyrags, Friday, 23 February 2007 04:43 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe this was the last one of this species alive! :-/

(also, to any aliens reading this: DON'T LAND HERE, you'll be locked up in a lab and dissected and killed) (and sold as Chilalien Sea Bass)

― StanM, Friday, 23 February 2007 07:45 (eighteen years ago)

I was so excited to read about finding the mega-massive colossal squid that I forgot to feel sorry for it being killed.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 February 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

"Maybe this was the last one of this species alive! :-/ "

We can never know - because we (humans) can't tolerate the conditions the colossal squid live in!

― aimurchie, Friday, 23 February 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

I hope I never see a lobster wearing hipster jeans and high heels!

― aimurchie, Friday, 23 February 2007 11:38 (eighteen years ago)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070209-octopus-video.html

OMG I LOVE THE WORLD

― emsk, Friday, 23 February 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

I will say, in the old ILX, there would be 10 pictures of such said squid. I am not complaining! I had calamari again, last night!
I'm just saying...i want a picture of the colossal squid.
is that too much to ask?
"in the old days, sonny boy, people posted pictures of collosal squid. And now, we don't GOT those things no more! Why? because everything changed, boy. Everything changed!"

― aimurchie, Monday, 26 February 2007 03:46 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/07/11/sw_squid_wideweb__470x433,2.jpg

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/squid-is-tassies-odd-midwinter-guest/2007/07/11/1183833599475.html

― gr8080, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

lol @ "Titanic"

― gr8080, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 23:39 (eighteen years ago)

that thing is miniscule compared to the artic one they pulled in 6 months ago.

― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 23:45 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Terrifying!

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:27 (seventeen years ago)

I believe they drilled into HELL by accident.

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:28 (seventeen years ago)

Soy un perdido - I'm an elbowed squid babe - so why don't you kill me.

― gary (aimurchie), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:34 (seventeen years ago)

the sleeper awakens

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:45 (seventeen years ago)

I mean, RELEASE THE KRAKEN

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:45 (seventeen years ago)

Cthulhu Threat Level now yellow

― Gino-Vanellyville (Mackro Mackro), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:46 (seventeen years ago)

Nov. 11, 2007!

― Aimless, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 17:53 (seventeen years ago)

Never forget.

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 18:09 (seventeen years ago)

That's some over sensitive pan control.

― Jarlrmai, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 18:13 (seventeen years ago)

I think we've all seen The Abyss enough times to know where this is heading

― nabisco, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 18:21 (seventeen years ago)

(Actually, wait, The Abyss ends right when it gets interesting: we get no clue whatsoever what happens to the world after the emergence of intelligent deep-sea angel/humanoids!)

― nabisco, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 18:22 (seventeen years ago)

The Abyss 2: Surf and Turf

― Jarlrmai, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 18:25 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/sounds_mystery.html

― StanM, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 18:38 (seventeen years ago)

bloop is kinda disappointing, but julia is intriguing!
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/sounds/julia_sound.wav

― Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 20:16 (seventeen years ago)

STUPENDOUS SQUID

― Edward III, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 20:25 (seventeen years ago)

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― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:27 (fifteen years ago)

Photographic Evidence Proves That Squid Can Fly @ U Face

― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:29 (fifteen years ago)

Pretty awesome imo. Dan it's OK, I don't think you're in any immediate danger of that happening.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:33 (fifteen years ago)

What's next, opposable thumb squids?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mH5EqzFK-PQ/SXKAmSZYZrI/AAAAAAAAAAU/XLMaMzzljqI/s1600-h/Ike+with+the+Pen.jpg

― StanM, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:35 (fifteen years ago)

Thought that post would include this pic, but it doesn't, apparently:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mH5EqzFK-PQ/SXKAmSZYZrI/AAAAAAAAAAU/XLMaMzzljqI/s1600-h/Ike+with+the+Pen.jpg

― StanM, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:36 (fifteen years ago)

That's a cat stan.

― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:36 (fifteen years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

― ENBB, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:37 (fifteen years ago)

Photographic Evidence Proves That Squid Can Masquerade As Cats Before They Flay @ U Face

― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:37 (fifteen years ago)

argh I miss being a mod

― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:37 (fifteen years ago)

http://beatonna.livejournal.com/140686.html

― jeevves, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:38 (fifteen years ago)

further mod abuses REVEALED

― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:38 (fifteen years ago)

Oops, I mean
http://beatonna.livejournal.com/132881.html

― jeevves, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:39 (fifteen years ago)

Ha! You just have to live with your typos like the rest of us plebs.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:39 (fifteen years ago)

I don't know why but goodwin's response there is killing me. I think it's time to step away from the computer and go home.

― ENBB, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:40 (fifteen years ago)

although there is something poetically awful about They Flay @ U Face

― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:40 (fifteen years ago)

omg

http://www.poormojo.org/Squid/images/KnitSquid-232/232-03.jpg

― StanM, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:47 (fifteen years ago)

IT'S BEGINNING

― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:48 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=149

― jeevves, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 03:17 (fifteen years ago)

introducing... SQUIDWORM!

looks like we're not in any danger though:
"The squidworm, Teuthidodrilus samae, does not appear to be a predator, feeding instead on bits of so-called "marine snow," a mix of sinking microscopic plants and animals, faecal material and cast-off mucus."

― RR, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 23:35 (fifteen years ago)

these cunts are trouble

leave them in their bathypelagic slumber

― calpolaris (nakhchivan), Thursday, 25 November 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

There's that formative moment in every young person's life where you're at a fish hatchery and you're watching the salmon swim upstream to spawn, and you just see a giant squid go by and as it goes by it tips its top hat... and you just kind of shrug.

― jeevves, Friday, 26 November 2010 08:16 (fifteen years ago)

Holy damn, I think I just ripped off a Steve Martin piece from 'The Cruel Shoes'

― jeevves, Friday, 26 November 2010 08:22 (fifteen years ago)

Where he rides his bicycle by a clown. Maybe not. Damn.

― jeevves, Friday, 26 November 2010 08:23 (fifteen years ago)

ten months pass...

http://io9.com/5848192/giant-prehistoric-krakens-may-have-sculpted-self+portraits-using-ichthyosaur-bones

Giant prehistoric krakens may have sculpted self-portraits using ichthyosaur bones

For decades, paleontologists have puzzled over a fossil collection of nine Triassic icthyosaurs (Shonisaurus popularis) discovered in Nevada's Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. Researchers initially thought that this strange grouping of 45-foot-long marine reptiles had either died en masse from a poisonous plankton bloom or had become stranded in shallow water.

But recent geological analysis of the fossil site indicates that the park was deep underwater when these shonisaurs swam the prehistoric seas. So why were their bones laid in such a bizarre pattern? A new theory suggests that a 100-foot-long cephalopod arranged these bones as a self-portrait after drowning the reptiles. And no, we're not talking about Cthulhu.

After considering the more brutal aspects of modern octopus predation, paleontologist Mark McMenamin of Mount Holyoke College came to the conclusion that the shonisaur remains had been deposited in a "kraken" lair by its massive, tentacled squatter. From his abstract of research being presented today at The Geological Society of America's annual meeting:

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We hypothesize that the shonisaurs were killed and carried to the site by an enormous Triassic cephalopod, a "kraken," with estimated length of approximately 30 m, twice that of the modern Colossal Squid Mesonychoteuthis. In this scenario, shonisaurs were ambushed by a Triassic kraken, drowned, and dumped on a midden like that of a modern octopus. Where vertebrae in the assemblage are disarticulated, disks are arranged in curious linear patterns with almost geometric regularity. Close fitting due to spinal ligament contraction is disproved by the juxtaposition of different-sized vertebrae from different parts of the vertebral column. The proposed Triassic kraken, which could have been the most intelligent invertebrate ever, arranged the vertebral discs in biserial patterns, with individual pieces nesting in a fitted fashion as if they were part of a puzzle. The arranged vertebrae resemble the pattern of sucker discs on a cephalopod tentacle, with each amphicoelous vertebra strongly resembling a coleoid sucker. Thus the tessellated vertebral disc pavement may represent the earliest known self‑portrait.

McMenamin anticipates that this theory will be met with skepticism, as the fleshy body of a giant Triassic octopus wouldn't fossilize well. But the possibility of finding that which is essentially a gargantuan mollusk's macaroni illustration? That's the kind of glorious crazy you hope is reality.

― lagerfeld of modern despots (latebloomer), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 02:51 (fourteen years ago)

This is such a perfect bit of nutty pseudo-scientific speculation, like the Aquatic Ape Theory or something. But it's awesome.

― lagerfeld of modern despots (latebloomer), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 02:52 (fourteen years ago)

Awesome but insane! Wow.

― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 10:53 (fourteen years ago)

how do you drown an ichythosaur? or are ichythosaur like whales/dolphins, need to breathe?

― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 12:17 (fourteen years ago)

I think they're reptiles, so probably no gills?

― rustic italian flatbread, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 12:27 (fourteen years ago)

The "self portrait" part does not have to be true for this to be plausible. Given cephalopod intelligence, "super huge squid idly arranges things according to shape" does not seem that outrageous.

I guess the only bit of this "kraken" they could hope to find fossilized would be its big ol beak?

― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:44 (fourteen years ago)

i want this to be true in the deepest, most ardent way

― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:59 (fourteen years ago)

It suggests MYSTERIES and also alternate evolutionary possibilities if only that intelligent super-kraken hadn't been edged out of his niche by...whatever edged him out.

― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 16:02 (fourteen years ago)

available evidence points towards Dick Cheney

― the tax avocado (DJP), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 16:02 (fourteen years ago)

Little-known commonality between Cheney and giant squid-- flesh contains too much ammonia to be any good for eating.

― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 16:29 (fourteen years ago)

ichythosaurs must be reptiles, "saur" means lizard -- i think they have nostril holes in their bea-snouts, like birds

(though one of the bigger four-legged water-living herbivores -- brachiosaurus? -- had nostrils on the top his head, like a hat)

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 16:48 (fourteen years ago)

s/b beak-snouts, technical term

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 16:49 (fourteen years ago)

you mean like an opposite-hat

― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 16:50 (fourteen years ago)

oh okay, like an opposite-hat. gotcha

― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 20:25 (fourteen years ago)

makes sense. so like a dolphin, ichythosaurs had opposite-hats. I wonder if pleisiosaurs also had opposite-hats, or did they just have beak-snouts?

― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 20:26 (fourteen years ago)

I feel like I'm going crazy, what the hell is an opposite-hat?

― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 20:30 (fourteen years ago)

pants are the opposite of hats I think

― cozen, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 20:33 (fourteen years ago)

Thanks, Cozen.

― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 20:34 (fourteen years ago)

Beak-pants?

― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 20:42 (fourteen years ago)

"The placement of Brachiosaurus nostrils has been the source of much debate with Witmer (2001)[9] describing in Science the hypothesized position of the fleshy nostrils in Brachiosaurus in as many as five possible locations." <--

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 21:33 (fourteen years ago)

Poll needed.

― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 21:35 (fourteen years ago)

I am pretty sure the crotch-nostril variety died out pretty quickly

― the tax avocado (DJP), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 21:38 (fourteen years ago)

Putting Dinosaurs' Noses Back Where They Really Were

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 21:42 (fourteen years ago)

little known fact but a dinosaur's sinuses served as both its uterus AND gallbladder

― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 22:01 (fourteen years ago)

face-cloaca

― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 22:06 (fourteen years ago)

opposite-nut

― mark s, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 22:07 (fourteen years ago)

http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Dr--Zoidberg-futurama-385178_200_200.jpg

― Occupy Kelly St (Trayce), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 22:21 (fourteen years ago)

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