Architeuthis Dux: Releasee The Kraken - Onto Video
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 10:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The giant squid is extremely rarely seen but remains are found in the formalin or ethanol collections of various museums. An international team has learned that no matter where in the world they are found, giant squid are so closely related at the genetic level that they represent a single, global population - despite previous statements, they are a single species worldwide. In 1857 the Danish naturalist Japetus Steenstrup determined that this beast was the same animal that gave rise to centuries of sailors' tales about monsters in the deep, later immortalized by writers such as Jules Verne and Herman Melville. He gave it the name Architeuthis dux. read more