A carcass of a giant squid was found intact by hikers on a beach in Britannia Bay, South Africa.
Several vehicles shared the impressive record. According to the Live Science website, the animal was first filmed in its natural habitat in 2013.
The difficulty in obtaining images of giant squid due to the depth at which the animal usually lives, between 610 m and 975 m below the surface
In an interview with the publication, Michael Vecchione, an invertebrate zoologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, stated that such sightings are extremely rare.
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Adele Grosse, who found the dead animal while walking through the village with her husband, did not hide her surprise at the find
“Seeing you really took my breath away,” he said.
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She estimates that the giant squid was about 4 m long and weighed about 300 kg. According to Live Science, a female of the species can grow up to 18 m
Speaking of squid, a young man came across a shark in one while preparing it for lunch. Check it out below!
A young man found a shark in an octopus he was preparing for lunch. The information comes from the Northern Ireland newspaper Belfast Live
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Adam Todd, as he is known, bought the seafood at a market in the Northern Irish city of Lisburn.
“I knew there was something about her. Usually the type of squid I buy is half the size. It was really big,” he said.
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Still, Adam didn’t realize until he got home that something really bizarre was going on there.
“It wasn’t until I started preparing it that I realized it was different”
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The surprise when opening the squid: Inside the animal was a baby shark
“I don’t usually go fishing. So the first time I saw a shark was in my sink,” he said.
And a Chinese blogger had a terrifying experience with another mollusk, an octopus, sticking to her face when she realized it was about to become food. Check it out below!
The blogueirinha above decided to eat a live octopus to draw netizens’ attention. Indeed, it has gained traction on the networks, but not for the exotic food…
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… and yes, because the creature ended up impetuously glued to his face!
The record of just over 50 seconds was released on the short video platform Kuaishou, according to the tabloid Mirror
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When she tried to suck the octopus, the animal’s tentacles spread and fixed themselves on the blogueirinha’s face.
“I can’t remove it,” the Chinese complains through tears
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However, she eventually manages to get rid of the creature.
“My face is disfigured”
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The blogueirinha shows a small wound left by the octopus on her cheek in front of the camera
And the networks have not forgiven the aspiring influencer: “She deserves it. She tried to eat the octopus and the octopus also tried to eat her,” commented one netizen
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“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” said another. In this case, tentacle by tentacle
A relative of the octopus and squid was fitted with 3D glasses to watch videos of shrimp. Understand below!
A mollusk was fitted with 3D glasses so it could watch movies showing a shrimp walking
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According to CNN, the unusual idea was part of a study led by Trevor Wardill, an assistant professor of ecology, evolution and behavior at the University of Minnesota.
Wardill wanted to know if the common European squid, the mollusk species used in the research, can observe and respond to the 3D projections in the same way as in the ocean.
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“It took a lot of convincing the squid to wear the glasses,” the teacher explained, “they wanted to play with them.”
The shrimp projected onto the screen helped attract the mollusks’ attention as they are the species’ favorite snacks.
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And when the creature behaved as expected, something magical happened.
The octopus stretched out its tentacles and attacked the onscreen creature as if it were seeing prey in the wild.
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The conclusion of the study was that squid have brains that can calculate distances by receiving information from both eyes at once. Just like humans. cool right?
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