Dead Giant Squid Washing Up On Southern California Beaches

[hatrack]

DANA POINT, Calif. - "Dead jumbo squid are again mysteriously washing up along the Southern California coastline, baffling scientists who are trying to find out why.

The Ocean Institute in Dana Point has conducted some of the research, shipping specimens to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and Stanford University for further study.

Scientists at the institute this week dissected a 5-foot-long, 15-pound female Humboldt squid that was filled with parasites and sand. More than a 100 squid have been spotted since Sunday between Dana Point and San Clemente.

Still, there are no answers. "We still don't know what's killing them," said Linda Blanchard, lab director of the Ocean Institute who has dissected about a dozen squid since they first washed up ashore in January. "All we have right now are theories."

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7229963/

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Man that's right near where I used to surf

and just a tad up from San Onofre and Camp Pendelton

[Withywindle]

2. "That is not dead which can eternal lie

and with strange aeons, even death may die."

< /Lovecraft reference >


:scared: