Paging Kevin, Craig, Peter, PZ, Jennifer, Josh, Mark, Andrew, Benny, Ed, Miriam, Rick, J., and Hugh...
'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!]
Read my full post over at Correlations...
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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! ;>
The science behind the news - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg8COKgqmT8&feature=related
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.