Re: Fw: Dinamations Exhibit

[Jonkeria@aol.com]

In a message dated 08/08/1999 6:34:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
majestic_cheese@yahoo.com writes:

<< 
 Could this have possibly been _Architeuthis dux_, the
 giant squid, an *extant* life form? Or could it be one
 of those extinct giant squid known, predictably, only
 from its (big) beak?  
  >>

I saw this exhibit like a decade ago (although at that time there was also a 
Tylosaurus, Pterygotus, Elasmosaurus, and Carcharocles) and it's definitely 
an Architeuthis feeding on some Saccopharynx gulper eels, which are decidedly 
among the last animals that might threaten an adult giant squid.

-Christian Kammerer