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"A live, adult giant squid has been caught on camera in the wild for the very first time."

As you well know, if you've been reading my blog since er.. day two, I love giant squids. There's something mysterious and creepy about them since they've never been caught on film until now! No one's ever really seen the GIANT giant squids either. There's a whole other world at the bottom of the ocean that we haven't discovered yet.

Check out the article and watch the video. You can find the link to the video on the upper right hand part of the page.

Oh btw, I found this photo which compliments my original blog post on giant squids. This is a Colossal squid which was found in Antartic waters. The largest one found of it's kind.



AND for the diehard fans, here's a fact sheet on Giant Squids and Colossal Squids OR you can read about Weird Squid Sex.

I found this article online with a photo from a book called 'Extreme Nature'. Apparently the photo was in a newspaper which everyone thought was real. Scary.

Labels: curiosities

Here's something EVERYONE should know. Especially us west coasters that don't live in the snow.

1. You can survive for three hours without shelter.
2. You can survive for three days without water.
3. You can survive for three weeks without food.

I've heard all kinds of crazy numbers like, you can survive 3 weeks without water and 3 months without food etc. It's just not the case. The one that suprised me the most (and I've lived in the snow before albeit when I was younger) was number 1. I didn't know that 3 hours was the limit without shelter in bad weather. Heck I just watched that dog movie Eight Below about the dog sled team that got left in Antartica for 175+ days and lived. I know humans aren't huskies or anything but 3 hours is a very very short amount of time.

If James Kim would have stayed with the car and they'd all died because no one found them what would people think then? Or since he left the car and died of exposure and hypothermia then people think it was wrong because it was too cold out? After nine days I don't know if even I would have stayed with the car and I HATE being cold. After that long you have to think that no one is going to find you and it's a very real possibility. It happens. People die in remote locations in the winter and don't get found until spring. Would you sit there and wait and wait and wait until you and your family died?

3 hours is such a short amount of time. I can't imagine what that must have been like. I was just in their neighborhood Tuesday night in San Francisco before they had found him. I don't know these people but I couldn't stop thinking about them over the last week. Coming from someone who lost a parent at a young age I know how devestating this can be not only for the kids but for his wife too. I'm sorry for their loss.

Wilderness Survivial: The Rule of Threes

CNET TV Tribute to James Kim (he demo's the Zune and gives it a positive review!)

Outdoor Survival/Shelter (an in depth explanation of "the rule of threes")

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Since I brought up the movie Eight Below I thought I'd post a few interesting things about it. .

- This movie was based on a true story of a Japanese expedition that took place in 1958. The original movied based on that story was called Nankyoku Monogatari.
- Only two dogs survived in the true story. Brothers named Taro and Jiro. They were born in Antartica, children of the original dogs that had been left behind. It was a year before the expedition returned and happened to find them there.
- Jiro died in 1960 and Taro in 1970. Both were preserved. Jiro was displayed at The National Science Museum in Tokyo next to Hachiko the faithful dog. Taro was displayed at Hokkaido University.

I found some photos of them preserved. It appears there was an Antarctic exhibit that reunited Taro and Jiro.

Jiro on the far left and Hachiko the faithful dog in the middle.


Taro and Jiro.

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I'm fascinated by the idea of there being species of "Giant" and now "Colossal" squids living in the world that we've never seen and will probably never see. I think it would be very cool if there were squids the size of the one in 20,000 leagues under the sea. You never know...

Photo: Auckland University of Technolgy researchers Dr. Steve O'Shea and Cat Bolstad, are seen with a Colossal Squid at the Te Papa research laboratory in Wellington, Wednesday April 2, 2003.The squid, which was found by fishermen in the Ross Sea, Antarctic, last week, is thought to be the largest intact specimen to have been found. The 150-Kilogram (330 pound) 5-meter (16 foot) immature female 'Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni' squid has eyes as big as dinner plates and razor-sharp hooks on the tentacles.

Read more about Giant Squids:
An in depth Colossal Squid article
Cool photo of Giant Squid found in Spain
New Species of Giant Squid found in Australia
Giant Squid Washes Ashore in Tasmania
Project Kraken Giant Squid Photos
A little lesson on giant squids
The UnMuseum - Giant Squid Lore

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