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DarkCloud
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Jul 2000
time: 05:15
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Originally posted by GP
For Derek...not you...ya fake calamari. |
I feel duty bound to post this:
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Giant Squids ????
One of the most dramatic sightings involving the Kraken occurred on 30 November 1861, whent he French gunboat Alecton pursed a huge specimen.
The crew harpooned the creature 120 nautical miles from Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, but it was so large that they could not haul it aboard.
The creature was measured to be about 7 metres long.
Another sighting occurred on 30 November 1896.
The remains of a huge sea creature were washed ashore on a beach near St Augustine, Florida, USA.
When Addison Verrill, professor of biology at Yale University, initially studied the case, he identified a stupendous octopus with a tentacle span of up to 60 metres.
However, the span of the largest officially recognised species of the world reaches only 7 metres or not.
His claim was treated with much skepticism that he had a change of mind later and identified it as those of a sperm whale.
When the samples of tissue from the body, stored at the Smithsonian Institution, were analysed in 1957 by two American biochemists, it was found that it could had been an octopus after all.
Even evidence of Science are "concealed" at times.
Last edited by DarkCloud on 13-08-2001 at 02:52
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09-08-2001 05:19
Where did you get that from?
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Where?
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