A New Quest
At least this time they have the magical beasts that protect the kingdom on their side, but will it be enough to face down the new beasts conjured by evil?
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Zepha The Monster Squid (Beast Quest)
Amazon Price: $4.99 (as of 12/01/2009)
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Janusz says:
Monster Squids are a proven fact, they have been filmed & dead examples have been found.
Posted May 23, 2008
No way
Monster Squids
The giant squid (genus: Architeuthis) is a deep-ocean dwelling squid in the family Architeuthidae, represented by as many as eight species. Giant squid can grow to a tremendous size: recent estimates put the maximum size at for females and for males from caudal fin to the tip of the two long tentacles (second only to the colossal squid at an estimated , one of the largest living organisms). The mantle is about long (more for females, less for males), and the length of the squid excluding its tentacles is about . There have been claims reported of specimens of up to , but no animals of such size have been scientifically documented.
On September 30, 2004, researchers from the National Science Museum of Japan and the Ogasawara Whale Watching Association took the first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat.Kubodera, T. & K. Mori 2005. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 272(1581):2583-2586. Several of the 556 photographs were released a year later. The same team successfully filmed a live adult giant squid for the first time on December 4, 2006.
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