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Related: About this forumDead Giant Squid Washes Up on Seram Island in Maluku
Jakarta. The remains of a giant squid washed up on the shores of Seram Island in Maluku province earlier this week.
According to a statement Beritasatu.com received on Wednesday (10/05), a resident, identified as Asrul Tuanakota (37), discovered the 15-meter-long squid on Tuesday evening.
In the darkness, Asrul initially mistook the giant sea creature for a stranded boat.
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http://jakartaglobe.id/news/dead-giant-squid-washes-up-on-seram-island-in-maluku/
that thing is huge
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Dead Giant Squid Washes Up on Seram Island in Maluku (Original Post)
n2doc
May 2017
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N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,788 posts)1. What's for dinner?....nt
flakey_foont
(3,342 posts)2. Mercy!
That is one BIG squid!!!
2naSalit
(86,843 posts)3. Trying to
gauge from the humans, roughly 5.5ft tall... that thing's main body has to be at least 35 ft long! The tendrils...?
That's gonna stink.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)4. Good thing these monsters live very, very deep. A human wouldn't even be
an appetizer for one of these.
procon
(15,805 posts)5. Arrgh... there be Sea Monsters, matey!
eppur_se_muova
(36,305 posts)6. 'Giant Squid' That Washed Up on Seram Island Was a Whale: Officials
http://jakartaglobe.id/news/giant-squid-that-washed-up-on-seram-island-was-a-whale-officials/
Thought that was way too big for a giant squid.
Thought that was way too big for a giant squid.
Igel
(35,374 posts)7. So Mieville wasn't a prophet.
And the gods haven't woken up.