- LISBON (Reuters) - A giant
squid has washed up on a Portuguese beach, a rare occurrence for the deep-water
creature, a museum spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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- Bathers found the dead 21.5-foot-long animal on Wednesday
on a beach near Melides, about 50 miles south of Lisbon, a spokeswoman
for the Oceanographic Museum of Portinho da Arrabida said.
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- Nature reserve workers transported the 110-pound cephalopod
to the museum, she said. It has been frozen awaiting examination and classification.
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- Giant squid normally live at depths of 1,600 to 3,300
feet, and usually sink when they die.
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- A giant squid with tentacles measuring at least 15 yards
in length washed up on an Australian beach in July.
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