59 Foot Long Squid Caught on Camera

Clint · Post by **Clint** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 7:50 pm

Scientists capture giant squid on camera

First images of creature live in the wild

See the picture here:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9503272/

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 7:54 pm

Clint, that is so cool! i have been waiting years for this! i took a year of marine bio as an adjunct to diving...my treatise was on octupi/squid intelligence....this photo is a really a cap on the case. COOL!!!!

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:02 pm

Wow, thank for that cool pic, what a fascinating creature! Watch out Captain Nemo!

robinseggs · Post by **robinseggs** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 7:37 am

Wow! Absolutley fascinating!! The boys will love this! Thanks!

actionfigurestepho · Post by **actionfigurestepho** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:46 pm

This was so exciting. I hope that there will be more footage to come. They're such beautiful creatures.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 7:24 pm

He should go fight it out with that croc and boa.......................

*yikes*

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 2:18 pm

Snake hiding in sewers is caught

The snake had been living in the sewers

A 10ft (3m) snake thought to have been living in sewage pipes in a block of flats for three months has been caught on a bathroom floor.

The boa constrictor, named Keith, is thought to have been abandoned after the resident was evicted owing Ã‚£5,500 in rent to his landlord.

It has been slithering out of toilet bowls thoughout the flats in Manchester since August.

In the wild the snake lives close to rivers or swamps.

The creature has been spotted on several occasions and homeowners have put bricks on toilet seats in a bid to keep the beast from popping out of the pan.

Previous sightings of the animal were treated with scepticism but firefighters were called to the block of flats on Clyde Road, West Didsbury, Manchester after it confronted a resident going to the toilet in the middle of the night.

Despite using high-tech fibre optic equipment to check sewage pipes, no trace of the snake was found.

However a resident who came face-to-face with the snake - thought to be female - on his bathroom floor managed to trap it by coaxing it into a bucket.

A spokesman for the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals (RSPCA) said it was not uncommon for snakes to be found in household sewage pipes. RSPCA regional exotic animals co-ordinator Jimmy Ratcliff said: "It would have no problem travelling up and down the waste pipe and has probably been eating rats from the sewer."