BBC News keeps me up to date on what's happening around the world, even if I only remember to check out the web site every few days.
Today's Antarctic news revolves around a Colossal Squid captured in Antarctic waters. This brief article is worth the read if only for the diagram of the size of this ginormous ocean creature.
The diagram shows the Colossal squid at 20 metres, and for those of us who can't do metre to feet conversions in our heads, I used Google's amazing conversion ability to figure out that 20 metres is over 65 1/2 feet long. Or 21.8 yards, just over two first downs in football.
I hope I get to see this guy in a museum some day. I can't even really picture how huge he is.
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