A Giant Squid caught in the Deep Seas of New Zealand has been plasticized and hung in the French National Museum of Natural History. The thing was over 9 meters long when caught! (It has since shrunk to just over 6.)
From the BBC Article:
"The biologist who helped organise the donation said there should be a giant squid in the country of Jules Verne - the Frenchman who wrote the celebrated novel 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.
That was an epic tale of struggles between sailors and tentacled monsters, featuring a giant squid that tried to engulf a submarine."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7322217.stm
Did you know that of all the creatures we've discovered on the planet, the Giant Squid has the Largest EYE? Lookin' at the picture, you're like, "Well...yeah."
(I found this on Boing Boing.)
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