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How big is a dead squid?

As big as you want it to be. Reuters reported the length of the large squid discovered on a Tasmanian beach today as two metres long.

Later, the ABC had its length at six metres.

That wasn't good enough for News Ltd, which subsequently described the dead cephalopod from the ocean depths as having a 'cross-section as big as a truck tyre and (being) longer than a station wagon'. Well, how long is a station wagon? Depends what model, I suppose.

Then, icWales took the motoring analogy further, declaring the beast to be as long as a bus.

If this keeps going the squid will have grown to Titanic proportions by morning. Which is kind of appropriate, because tales of giant squid have been a rich source of ancient mythology and human imagination.

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  1. Beware the kraken! Especially the ones that dwell between pages of newsprint! Arrr!

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  2. They should have said how many servings of calamari it could have made.

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  3. Julie, John Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes frightened me as a child.

    Terry, 250 grams of crumbed and fried calamari with a nice side Greek salad and some bread should suffice for most; so at 250 kilograms that means the dead beastie would serve a thousand of your best friends at your next barbecue. Just use plenty of marinade; apparently they're tough when they're that big.

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  4. I read the Kraken Wakes, too, but as a jaded teenager, and so was determined not to be frightened. How abt The Day of the Triffids? love that, too. Also, a good giant squid movie: The Wake of the Red Witch, I think, with John Wayne and Ray Milland.

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  5. I read all of John Wyndham's in Fourth Form, Lucette. I think it was all I did that year.

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  6. What cracks me up is the article mentions the Giant Squid and then the (even bigger) Colossal Squid. They left out the Large Economy Size Squid.

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