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[glen]

Giant squid (Archie) goes on display - The Natural History Museum, London
                                           28 Feb 2006
                                                                     A giant squid, Architeuthis dux, was recently put on display at the London Natural History Museum's Darwin Centre tank room.

The 8.62-metre squid, called Archie, was caught off the coast of the Falkland Islands in March 2004.                                

Archie is not the largest specimen ever caught, that record belongs to an  18.5-metre specimen caught in Island Bay, New Zealand in 1880. Archie  was caught live and is almost complete making it a very important  specimen for research. Initial investigations suggest that Archie is  female although this will be confirmed by future study.

The  final home for 'Archie' is a specially made acrylic tank filled with a  10 per cent solution of formol-saline as a preservative. The tank was  constructed in California by Casco Ltd., the people who made the tanks  for Damien Hirsts' various artworks of animals in formaldehyde. The  tank is 9 metres and 45 centimetres long and stands on a 1-metre  stainless steel stand so that the giant squid can be viewed from any  angle.

http://www.nhm.ac.uk.../news_5255.html

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[poodge]

thats awesome!   how big is the one at the melbourne aquarium?
pj

[glen]

the melbourne squid frozen in an ice block (at the melbourne aquarium) was a tiny 7 metres long...!!!!

http://www.squidfish...p?showtopic=939