Colossal Squid Has Glowing "Cloaking Device," Huge Eyes May 2, 2008
A fishing net had accidentally caught the giant in 's Ross Sea in February 2007. The squid was kept frozen until the scientific team could be assembled. (National Geographic)
Huge Squid Has World's Largest Eyes: See The Pictures May 2, 2008
A New Zealand fishing boat snagged the squid in February 2007, as it sought toothfish in the Antarctic waters of the Ross Sea. The crew hauled in a line with many baited hooks and discovered a massive squid feasting on one of the hooked fish, the museum says on its Web site. (WTKR.com, VA)
PHOTOS: Colossal Squid Revealed in First In-Depth Look May 2, 2008
The came in 2003, when fishers caught a 20-foot (6-meter) male in Antarctica's Ross Sea. Photograph by Marty Melville/Getty Images. (National Geographic)
Scientists finally get close squiz at colossal squid Apr 16, 2008
The squid, weighing 495kg and estimated to be six to eight metres long, has remained on ice at the Te Papa Tongarewa museum in Wellington since it was pulled from the Ross Sea by New Zealand fishermen last February. A statement from the museum today said scientists from New Zealand and Japan have been invited to lead the examination of the specimen on April 30, which is from a species known as colossal squid. (Sydney Morning Herald)
The white wilderness needs care Mar 31, 2008
the trawler Argos Georgia was adrift for 15 days in ice after losing power while fishing in the Ross Sea off Antarctica's northern coast on 23 December last year. in early 2007, an explosion and fire on the Nisshin Maru, the Japanese whale processing ship, resulted in one death and loss of power for several days under dangerous conditions in sensitive waters. (BBC News -- Science)
Antarctic explorers come face to face with sea giants Mar 25, 2008
The marine life encountered during the 2,000-mile voyage through the Ross Sea, off the north coast of the frozen continent, included jellyfish with 12ft-long tentacles, giant sea snails and starfish the size of food platters. The international team of 26 scientists and 18 crew collected 30,000 samples during the expedition, the most comprehensive survey ever of the Ross Sea. (Belfast Telegraph)
Giant sea creatures found in Antarctic Mar 23, 2008
A 2,000-mile journey through the Ross Sea that ended Thursday has also potentially turned up several new species, including as many as eight new molluscs ... But beyond the discovery of new species, scientists said the survey, the most comprehensive to date in the Ross Sea, turned up other surprises ... Previously only small-scale scientific samplings have been staged in the Ross Sea. (CNN)
Health/science news roundup: Salty Mars, more Mar 22, 2008
A 2,000-mile journey through the Ross Sea that ended Thursday has also potentially turned up several new species, including as many as eight new mollusks. The finds must still be reviewed by experts to determine if they are in fact new, said Stu Hanchet, a fisheries scientist at New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research. (AZCentral -- News)
Antarctic survey nets 30000 samples Mar 21, 2008
The Tangaroa arrived back in Wellington yesterday after a 50 day voyage collecting biological samples and capture images of the seafloor down to depths of about 4000m, in unexplored areas of the Ross Sea ... The Government is keeping its options open to match British plans to claim sovereign rights over a vast area of the seabed in the Ross Sea ... But the key purpose of the voyage to survey the biodiversity of sites through the Ross Sea at times required use of as many as 12 different sampling... (Stuff.co.nz)
AGU Journal Highlights -- March 19, 2008 Mar 20, 2008
The results of Tortell et al. show that elevated CO2 concentrations increase phytoplankton productivity in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, and promote the growth of larger diatom chains. These chains are prolific bloom formers with very high capacities to export organic carbon to sediments. (EurekAlert!)
* Scientists and soldiers cannot keep the poles to themselves Mar 17, 2008
This vast wilderness of rock and ice lies on a cliff overlooking the Ross Sea and is celebrated as destination of the "worst journey in the world.". This was the title of the book written by the British explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard about a trip taken by him and two colleagues from Robert Scott's 1911 polar expedition to acquire the eggs of the emperor penguin. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
'Lost' Sediments Show Details Of Polar Magnetic Field Mar 1, 2008
The results came from a seabed sediment core collected by the U.S. Navy in the Antarctic Ross Sea in 1968 as part of Operation Deep Freeze ... "I think this is one of the best palaeomagnetic records yet from the Ross Sea," Verosub said ... The South Pole (lower right) and the Ross Sea, Antarctica. (Science Daily)
Japan resumes Antarctica whale hunt Feb 6, 2008
Last year, Japan's southern ocean whaling season ended early after its factory ship, Nishin Maru, was crippled by fire while hunting in the Ross Sea area killing one crew member. Source: Agencies. (Aljazeera.Net)
Antarctic Marine Census Trip Begins Jan 30, 2008
Foreign Minister Winston Peters said the voyage would provide essential information about the biodiversity and functioning of the Ross Sea ecosystem off the coast that would help safeguard its long-term ecological viability. New assessments of ocean acidification caused by climate change and identification of new species off Antarctica's coastline are expected from the voyage, Clark said. (National Geographic)
* Clark warns off Japanese fleet Jan 26, 2008
Chadwick said the whalers were heading toward the Ross Sea, an area for which New Zealand has international search and rescue responsibility ... Last year's southern ocean whale hunt by Japan ended early after its whaling fleet factory ship, Nisshin Maru, was crippled by fire and one crew member killed in Ross Sea waters ... Chadwick said it was not illegal for the Japanese ships to go into Ross Sea waters, but it would breach a protocol the whalers inked. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Greenpeace anti-whaling ship low on fuel Jan 26, 2008
Last year the Japanese factory ship Nisshin Maru was disabled by fire in the Ross Sea. One whaler was killed, but the ship eventually managed to return to port under its own steam. (Sydney Morning Herald)
NZ worried by Japanese whaling fleet Jan 25, 2008
Last year, the Japanese factory ship was disabled by fire in the Ross Sea after clashing with anti-whaling protesters ... "You don't quickly mount a voyage from the naval dockyard in Auckland to the far south of the Ross Sea. This is very, very awkward.". (The Age)
New Zealand PM warns off Japanese whalers Jan 25, 2008
Last year, the Japanese factory ship was disabled by fire in the Ross Sea after clashing with anti-whaling protesters. Share. (Reuters India)
Volcano found under Antarctic ice Jan 21, 2008
Mount Erebus, on Ross Island in the Ross Sea, is the areas most famous active volcano and its continuous activity has been observed since the 1970s. This volcanic activity has led some geologists to suspect that volcanoes lurking beneath the ice might affect how glaciers melt and flow on the continent. (Nature News Service)
Greenhouse ocean may downsize fish Jan 12, 2008
Hutchins and colleagues are doing related experiments in the north Atlantic Ocean and the Ross Sea, near Antarctica. The basic dynamics of a greenhouse ocean are not well understood, he noted. (EurekAlert!)
* US Air Force drops engine parts for a disabled UK trawler Jan 7, 2008
A US Air Force plane air-dropped vital engine parts yesterday to a disabled British fishing trawler caught in pack ice for the past two weeks in the Ross Sea off Antarctica's northern coast ... A US C-17 Loadmaster dropped an engine piston and casing from approximately 120m above the Ross Sea ice early yesterday, Lieutenant Colonel Jim McGann, New Zealand-based commander of the US Antarctic base supply group Deep Freeze, said ... New Zealand is responsible for coordinating rescue and marine... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Part dropped to ship stuck in ice Jan 6, 2008
A number of British fishermen are among the 25 crew on board the Argos Georgia in the Ross Sea. In a mission arranged by the New Zealand Rescue Co-ordination Centre, the plane dropped a piston to the ship. (BBC News -- UK)
What makes a modern hero? Jan 5, 2008
He DID lose men, three of his Ross Sea Party (laying depots for men that never came) died in the Transantarctic expedition of 1914/16. Both men had faults but were ultimately heroic explorers who suffered great hardship in the cause of furthering human knowledge. (BBC News -- UK)
ANDRILL's 2nd Antarctic drilling season exceeds all expectations Nov 28, 2007
Florindo and Harwood said fossils and sediments deposited during this year's ANDRILL target interval suggest the persistence of warmer-than-present conditions over an extended period of the middle and late Miocene when the western Ross Sea and McMurdo Sound resembled the modern climate conditions of southernmost South America, southwestern New Zealand, and southern Alaska, rather than the cold polar climate of today. "Until now, most climatic interpretations for this time period has been based... (EurekAlert!)
Fish Help Geologists By Gathering Stones From Ocean Floor Nov 23, 2007
During two fishing seasons, specialists collected stones from the Antarctic toothfish stomachs in the antarctic Ross Sea and Amundsen Sea ... Even preliminary analysis of stones from the Ross Sea bottom enables to provide qualitative assessment of geological structure of the coastal strip and the continental slope ... Thus, the Ross Sea area corresponds to a larger extent to the shield. (Science Daily)
East Hartford geologist goes with the flow - in Antarctica Nov 17, 2007
"On Expedition 3, we'll leave the northern hemisphere behind and travel to the bottom of the world: Antarctica. We'll camp out in tents with three teams of scientists studying two very different subjects: First, we'll look at the biology of the frigid, bountiful Ross Sea through the eyes of Ad?lie penguins. Then we'll tackle the geology of 300,000-year-old lava flows high on Mount Morning, a dormant volcano in the towering Royal Society Mountains. We'll work round the clock thanks to the 24... (East Hartford Gazette, CT)
Nations wary of sowing oceans to capture carbon Nov 13, 2007
Fertilisation has been tested in several big experiments, including one in which 15 square kilometres of sea between New Zealand and the Ross Sea was laced with 3. 1 tonnes of iron sulphate by US oceanographers in 2002. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Large Iceberg Breaks Off Pine Island, Antarctica Oct 23, 2007
10, 2006) An enormous iceberg, C-16, rammed into the well-known Drygalski Ice Tongue, a large sheet of glacial ice and snow in the Central Ross Sea in Antarctica, on 30 March 2006, breaking off the tongue's. (Apr. (Science Daily)
Chinese explorers to set up seismic stations in Antarctica Aug 25, 2007
Worldwide scientists are increasingly keen on the research into the tectonic movements of Antarctica, which used to be two plates that pulled away from each other in the northern Ross Sea between 28 and 40 million years ago. "The two plates have since solidified into one, which is what confused geologists," said An. (Xinhuanet, China)
Icebergs teem with diverse life Aug 17, 2007
Kevin Arrigo, a biological oceanographer at Stanford University who has studied icebergs in Antarctica's Ross Sea, says they aren't calving or melting as prolifically as those in the Weddell Sea. And he notes that biological production in the seas around Antarctica amounts to less than 10 percent of the worldwide total of marine life. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
New Zealand formed from 'giant plateau' Jul 28, 2007
The mountains run up out of the Ross Sea, immediately south of New Zealand, along the western edge of the Ross Ice Shelf, and nearly 4000km across the frozen continent to divide east and west Antarctica ... "This is because NZ was right next to the Ross Sea during Cretaceous times," he said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Penguin Remains Being Used To Measure Antarctic Ice Movement Jul 24, 2007
The first article describes the method Emslie developed to measure the advance and retreat of the Ross Ice Shelf, part of a large glacier that extends into the Ross Sea, by locating and dating the presence of Ad;lie penguin colonies. Published with Larry Coats and Kathy Licht in the January 2007 edition of Geology, and entitled "A 45,000 year record of Ad;lie penguins and climate change in the Ross Sea, Antarctica," the article examines the effects of climate change on Ad;lie penguins over... (Science Daily)
NIU geologist wins Fulbright to New Zealand Jul 11, 2007
About 150 scientists are participating in the two-season effort to recover geologic rock cores from beneath the frozen Antarctic Ross Sea. The unprecedented project aims to help scientists unravel Antarctica's climate history and ultimately shed light on global warming trends. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
New Undersea Images Challenge Prevailing Ideas About The Antarctic Ice Sheet Jul 2, 2007
The researchers used the National Science Foundation Research Icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer to conduct their experiments in the Eastern Ross Sea ... Images of areas below the Eastern Ross Sea, next to West Antarctica, provide evidence that the subcontinent was involved in the general growth of the Antarctic Ice Sheet as it formed many millions of years ago, according to scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara ... The scientific team believes that West Antarctica was previously... (Science Daily)
Antarctic Icebergs Teeming With Life, Study Says Jun 22, 2007
A study in 2002 actually found Connecticut-sized icebergs in Antarctica's Ross Sea reduced activity of marine life there by 70 percent. "That was catastrophically bad for the ecosystem," said Kevin Arrigo, a biological oceanographer at Stanford University in California who led the 2002 research. (National Geographic)
B12 Is Also An Essential Vitamin For Marine Life May 21, 2007
Scientists from research institutions around the world convened for expeditions in 2005 and 2006 aboard the icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer to the Ross Sea near Antartica, which teems with small plants, known as algae, in spring and summer ... Bertrand, Saito, and colleagues collected water samples from three locales in the highly fertile Ross Sea off Antarctica during an expedition in 2005 aboard the icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer ... In the Ross Sea, spectacular spring blooms of marine algae... (Science Daily)
India's Polar ambitions are growing May 18, 2007
Estimates vary as to the abundance of oil in Antarctica, but the Weddell and Ross sea areas alone are said to possess 50 billion barrels of oil, according to the US Department of Energy ... The United States' McMurdo Station alone, which has a summertime population of 2,000, generates more than a tonne of garbage per person every year, and discharges 250,000 liters of raw sewage into the Ross Sea every day. (Asia Times Online)
Big area of Antarctica melted, satellite finds May 16, 2007
CURRENT ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS. Vast areas of snow in Antarctica melted in 2005 when temperatures warmed up for a week in the summer in a process that may accelerate invisible melting deep beneath the surface, NASA said on Tuesday. (Scientific American)
Creating More Accurate Climate Models Based On New Ice Cores May 8, 2007
Researchers with the Antarctic Geological Drilling (ANDRILL) Program, which concluded its first field season in January, say long cores of sedimentary rocks that they recovered from below the bed of the Ross Sea beneath the ice shelf allow them to peer deeply into the past to a time when Antarctica was a warmer, more inviting place. They were surprised, for example, to find such large volumes of fossil diatoms -- microscopic single-celled algae that live in surface or shallow waters -- in the... (Science Daily)
Colossal Squid May Be Headed for Oven Mar 23, 2007
In this photo released by New Zealand Fisheries Department on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2007, shows an unidentified New Zealand fisherman with a giant squid believed to have been caught in early February 2007 in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. The creature is known as a colossal squid (scientific name Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni). (ABC News)
Colossal Squid May Be Defrosted in Giant Microwave Oven Mar 23, 2007
The colossal squid believed to have been caught in early February in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. The colossal squid believed to have been caught in early February in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. (Fox News -- Views)
Suckers!Scientists grapple with researching the world's largest squid Mar 16, 2007
" Sexing squid Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni was first identified in 1925 after two tentacles were recovered from a sperm whale's stomach. Since then, only a handful of colossal squid have ever been sighted. Two were found in the Ross Sea, and another turned up near South Georgia in 2005. SIZE COMPARISON The colossal squid has one of the largest beaks known on any squid, and also has unique swivelling hooks on the clubs at the ends of its tentacles. This latest colossal squid was caught by a New... (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Greenpeace's Anti-Whaling Ship to Head to Japan Mar 12, 2007
Greenpeace said the Esperanza spent over a week on stand-by to assist the fire-disabled whaling factory ship in the Ross Sea, then escorted the Japanese whaling fleet out of Antarctic waters. "We began a positive dialogue from ship to ship in the Southern Ocean during the emergency with the Nisshin Maru," said Junichi Sato, Greenpeace Japan whales campaign coordinator. (Planet Ark, United States)
Sediment Wedge Key To Glacial Environmental Stability Mar 7, 2007
The researchers identified a sediment wedge beneath the Whillans Ice Stream in Antarctica using snowmobile-towed radar where ice from the Whillans Ice Stream in West Antarctica begins to float in the Ross Sea forming the Ross Ice Shelf ... Anandakrishnan and colleagues note that the wedge depicted by radar imaging closely matches wedges found beyond the floating Ross Sea on the ocean bottom. (Science Daily)
Environmentalists call for Ross Sea protection Mar 3, 2007
Japan officially called off it's whaling season yesterday, after a fire a fortnight ago crippled one its ships and left it drifting in the Ross Sea. The World Wide Fund for Nature is using the launch of International Polar Year today to call for the Ross Sea to be declared a Marine Protected Area ... The head of WWF's Antarctica Programme, Constance Johnson says the Ross Sea should be declared a marine protected area. (ABC Online)
Engulfed In Mystery Mar 3, 2007
" The giant squid was found two weeks ago in waters south of Key West. The fisherman packed it on ice and sent it to Mote, one of the country's leading marine research centers. The find comes on the heels of a similar, more stunning discovery in Antarctica's Ross Sea. Fishermen caught what is believed to be the world's largest known squid, a colossal, 30-foot creature weighing nearly a half-ton and with eyes the size of basketballs. The find made international headlines. The Mote squid measures... (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- News)
Antarctic 'sandbags' may protect ice Mar 2, 2007
A survey of the Ross Sea also reveals piles of rock similar to the Whillans wedge on the sea floor, suggesting that many previous glaciers may have had similar 'sandbags' that ended further out than the current shoreline. This raises hopes that many other glaciers today may also be protected in this way. (Nature News Service)
Scientists Worldwide Embrace International Polar Year Mar 1, 2007
"Scientists will be capturing records of environmental change, whether it is from the ice sheets of Greenland or Antarctica or sediments from impact crater lakes in Siberia or from the Ross Sea.". Scientists will also operate autonomous underwater vehicles at the Gackle Ridge underneath the arctic sea ice to look for vent communities. (Voice of America)
Japan Abandons Its Hunt for Whales After Fire on Ship (Update2) Mar 1, 2007
Crew members restored power on Feb. 24, and the whaling fleet is heading north away from the Ross Sea where the incident occurred, 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the world's largest Adelie penguin colony, according to environmental activists Greenpeace International, which has a ship in the area. No more Southern Ocean whales will die from grenade- tipped harpoons this season, and the threat to the Antarctic environment by the fire-damaged Nisshin Maru has now been averted,'' Greenpeace said in... (Bloomberg)
Damaged Japanese Whaling Vessel Sets Sail, May Resume Hunt Off Antarctica Feb 26, 2007
New Zealand's Conservation Minister Chris Carter is ``delighted'' the ship has left the Ross Sea, spokesman Nick Maling said by telephone today from Wellington. We gather the Japanese are not going to resume whaling and are pleased about that,'' Maling said. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi nominated for best supporting actress in 'Babel' arrives at the 79th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, February 25, 2007. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson Monday, February 26, 20:32 Japan whaler finally heading home? Feb 26, 2007
Esperanza has been close to the six-vessel Japanese whaling fleet for several days in the Ross Sea off the Antarctic coast, and Thomas said the expedition leader told Greenpeace "their destination was Japan." ... Esperanza has been close to the six-vessel Japanese whaling fleet for several days in the Ross Sea off the Antarctic coast. (News on Japan, Japan)
* Damaged whaling ship hopes to stay for Antarctic hunt Feb 26, 2007
Nisshin Maru, the whale processing ship of the Japanese whaling fleet, has been stranded in the Ross Sea since a fire broke out on its lower decks Feb. 15, and has been drifting, lashed to two other whaling fleet boats. Japan has been determined that the ship move under its own steam, while New Zealand and conservationists say offers of help to tow the ship away should be accepted to ease fears it could spill oil or other toxic chemicals near Antarctica's largest penguin rookery. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
New Zealand PM: Japan whaler was threat Feb 26, 2007
The 8,000-ton whale-meat processing ship, which is carrying 343,000 gallons of fuel oil, had been drifting in the Ross Sea lashed to two other whaling fleet boats. "When you have a boat disabled like that, with a chance it could sink and go down with all that fuel on board - and there was a lot of it - that poses a huge risk to the Antarctic environment," New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said Monday. (Bakersfield Californian -- World)
Whaling ship on the move Feb 25, 2007
"While she was in distress and while she was disabled in the Ross Sea, we didn't consider her a whaling vessel, we considered her a vessel that we could possibly assist and offered to do so," Karli Thomas says. Greenpeace's Melanie Duchen says the Esperanza is about 10 kilometres behind the Japanese fleet. (TVNZ)
Whaling ship must not return: Greenpeace Feb 25, 2007
The Nisshin Maru started moving away from the Antarctic's Ross Sea area on Saturday night 10 days after it was seriously damaged by a below-hold fire which killed a 25-year-old crewman. The Japanese steadfastly refused offers of help from Greenpeace whose protest ship Esperanza is now shadowing it out of the region. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Tommy Chong to help raise money for Ed Rosenthal's pot fight Feb 25, 2007
"Daley is expected to win easily over two challengers -- Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown and William "Dock" Walls, who served as an aide to one-time Mayor Harold Washington.Slow down and watch out for whales, Spain tells ships in Strait of GibraltarMADRID, Spain (AP) -- Spain wants ships to slow down and watch out for whales while passing through the Strait of Gibraltar, one of the world's busiest maritime routes.The recommendation drew praise Saturday from environmentalists who sought the... (North County Times)
U.S. tourist kills mugger with bare hands Feb 24, 2007
Weather in the Ross Sea, where the vessel is drifting lashed between two other whalers, is still calm and the ship is not in any danger from pack ice, Inwood said. An international environmental coalition said Friday it has asked countries with stakes in the Antarctic to act to prevent environmental damage from the ship. (North County Times)
New demands to tow crippled whaler Feb 24, 2007
However he said the whaler, which is currently lashed between two other vessels from the fleet, posed no immediate threat because the Ross Sea was still calm and the ship was not in any danger from moving ice. Source: Agencies. (Aljazeera.Net)
New Zealand fishermen haul in rare colossus of the deep Feb 24, 2007
The only other complete specimen - a 300kg immature female - was caught on the surface in the Ross Sea near the Antarctic coast in April 2004. The fishing crew who hauled in the new specimen were on a trip to catch Patagonian toothfish in Antarctic waters south of New Zealand when they ran into the squid. (Guardian Unlimited -- Life)
Fishermen face half-ton Colossus of the deep Feb 24, 2007
After hooking the squid on a long line in the Ross Sea, fishermen then spent two hours manoeuvring a net underneath it ... One was caught in the nets of a Russian trawler in the Ross Sea in 1981, another was found near the surface in 2003, and a third near South Georgia, in the South Atlantic, last year. (Yahoo News -- Animals & Insects)
990-pound squid hauled in Feb 23, 2007
New Zealand Fisheriesvia APThishuge squid was caught in early Februaryin the Ross Sea offAntarctica. It was weighed at 990 pounds, which if confirmed on shore would break the earlier record by 330 pounds. (MSNBC -- International)
Captain who caught giant squid relives the moment Feb 23, 2007
"I knew instantly what it was and that it was the biggest retrieved, because I caught the first one in the same area of the Ross Sea in 2002 and have an interest in keeping abreast with information from around the world.". Nine crew took two hours to carefully envelop the near dead 10m-long squid in the ship's cargo net using long poles, then to cradle it and lift it on board with a crane. (New Zealand Herald)
Japan: Whaling ship's engine restarted Feb 23, 2007
The damaged Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru is sandwiched by a refueling vessel, left, and hunter vessel in the Ross Sea in Antarctica on Saturday ... The weather in the Ross Sea where the ship is drifting continues to be calm, Corbett said. (MSNBC -- Environment)
New Zealand demands Japan move whaler Feb 23, 2007
Weather in the Ross Sea where the vessel is drifting, lashed between two other whalers about 135 miles north of the pristine Antarctic coast, is still calm and the ship is not in any danger from pack ice, Inwood said. The Japanese whaling fleet had been "really, really lucky with the weather but that won't last," Carter said. (News on Japan, Japan)
Half-tonne colossus squid hauled up from the deep Feb 23, 2007
"There has never been another squid this size captured," stunned squid expert Steve O'Shea said yesterday of the find by New Zealand fishermen in the Ross Sea. "For over a century, people have talked about the giant squid being the largest squid in the world and it is difficult to break that myth. People didn't want the giant squid toppled, knocked off its throne by this bloody upstart down in New Zealand.". (Sydney Morning Herald)
