When June and Clive were here we went in to Te Papa to see the GIANT squid. What I didn't realise is that they have large hooks at the end of their tentacles. They seemed about 10 cms long. Yuk!! The interesting thing was, that this, the largest squid ever found, is that the tentacles are not that long - it is the size of the (female) body that makes it the largest ever found. At 4.2m and weighing 495 kgs it was caught by a fishing boat near Antartica in 2007. I see the Discovery Channel is going to have a documentary on it tonight.
