Giant squid

[lovingboth]

The Today programme keeps talking about the one that's been photographed being eight metres across. The BBC's web site says eight metres long... which sounds much smaller.

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[scopo.livejournal.com]

it was reported here as being 'bus-sized'

[f-l-i-r-t.livejournal.com]

either way sounds bloody big to me... Yikes! I often wonder what lurks in the deepest of deepest and dark ocean waters, prehistoric stuff I am sure. I have seen a few science shows that speculate, intereting and terrifying all at once.

[dr-jen.livejournal.com]

I only realised that manta rays could get up to 23 feet in "disk length" after following the link that rysmiel posted
here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/rysmiel/396933.html) , hadn't heard about the squid, thanks :-)