Who Doesn't Love A 900-Pound Colossal Squid?!

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COLOSSAL SQUID!

i-7ac80d13830c6a872cf606b805e3f156-squid2.jpg'On Wednesday, a 30 foot long, 900-pound colossal squid hauled up from the Antarctic last January will be studied by a team of scientists... but the catch is, they'll only have FOUR hours!'

[Note, the awesomeness of the colassal squid has no bearing on where I stand in the Great Marine Invertebrate Wars. Echinoderms Rule!]

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So cool! I can't wait to watch on Discovery Channel!

You know who doesn't love giant squids/octopi/mollusks?

Vertebrates. (In particular, check out the shark in the video.)

I think this would be perfect for a scientific game show. Something with lots of buzzers. "I'll take gut contents for 500!" ZZZZZT! "I'm sorry, that was not a myctophid skeleton, but a sardine."

Imagine all the calamari! ;>

This. Is. Awesome.

What they need is a bunch of beefy rival scientists who are trying to get in the way of the investigation. Like on Gladiators.