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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Fri May 12, 2017, 09:35 AM May 2017

Dead 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 OP
What's for dinner?....nt N_E_1 for Tennis May 2017 #1
Mercy! flakey_foont May 2017 #2
Trying to 2naSalit May 2017 #3
Good thing these monsters live very, very deep. A human wouldn't even be COLGATE4 May 2017 #4
Arrgh... there be Sea Monsters, matey! procon May 2017 #5
'Giant Squid' That Washed Up on Seram Island Was a Whale: Officials eppur_se_muova May 2017 #6
So Mieville wasn't a prophet. Igel May 2017 #7

2naSalit

(86,536 posts)
3. Trying to
Fri May 12, 2017, 10:15 AM
May 2017

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
Fri May 12, 2017, 10:21 AM
May 2017

an appetizer for one of these.

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