Colossal Squid
The lack of knowledge of territory, migration, DNA relationships are still a total unknown to science. We re neither a traditional ad agency nor a production company. One question that s never been answered to me is when they say the squid is 33 feet long. The design of a tank to safely store and display the specimen has presented Te Papa with a considerable challenge and we have been assisted by in Hawera and Etech Industries in Palmerston North. It bothers me that such a beautiful creature had to be captured and die for the sake of research. Colossal squid live in very deep waters in the ocean, at about 1,000 metres below the sea surface, where sunlight does not penetrate. Like growth rings on trees, they can be counted to determine the age. Jules Verne of me, but I wish we could do studies of these large squids' ability to reason. The squid weighs about 550 pounds (250 kilograms) and was found in two pieces on Seven Mile Beach. He said the squid was caught near the surface of the ocean.
