[Dhaka Tribune] It was a calm morning in Antarctica's remote Ross Sea, during the season when the sun never sets, when Capt. John Bennett and his crew hauled up a creature with tentacles like fire hoses and eyes like dinner plates from a mile below the surface.A colossal squid: 350 kilograms (770 pounds), as long as a minibus and one of the sea's most elusive species.
Datsa lotta calamari.
It had been frozen for eight months until Tuesday, when scientists in New Zealand got a long-anticipated chance to thaw out the animal and inspect it -- once they used a forklift to maneuver it into a tank.