From the AP:
A New Zealand fishing boat has caught what could prove to be the world’s biggest known colossal squid, said the New Zealand fisheries minister, Jim Anderton. The squid — colossal is its species name, or more scientifically, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni — an estimated 990 pounds and 39 feet long, about the length of a school bus, took two hours to land in Antarctica’s Ross Sea. ... “This is going to draw phenomenal interest,” said Steve O’Shea, a squid expert at the Auckland University of Technology. “If calamari rings were made from the squid, they would be the size of tractor tires.”
