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Colossal Squid Could Grow to 1,600 Pounds (750 Kg)

The analysis of the largest colossal squid ever caught (and largest invertebrate ever captured) has provided some first spectacular results - this is also the largest invertebrate species known to have ever existed. In February 2007, a New Zealand fishing crew off the coast of Antarctica (in the northern Ross Sea), that was out fishing Patagonian toothfish (Chilean sea bass), accidentally caught the 1,089-pound (490 kg), 26-ft (8.6 m) long colossal squid, which is also the sixth ever captured. ... Read »
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