Display giant ink

One of the largest and most intact squid ever found is appearing in public at the London Museum of Natural History, England.

Animals were caught by trawls off the Falkland Islands, with a length of up to 8.2 meters. The museum's researchers made a meticulous preservation process to keep it intact, and are now on display in a 9-meter-long glass basin.

Giant squid, once considered a sea snake, is rarely observed and lives at a depth of 200 to 1,000 meters.

They can weigh up to 1 ton, and the largest ever recorded is 18.5 meters long, appearing in 1880 off New Zealand's Bay Island.

" Most giant ink tends to be thrown onto the beach when it's dead, or found in the stomach of sperm whales, so they're often in very bad, decaying state ," Jon Ablett, manager of mollusks group at the Museum, the leader of the preservation team said. Therefore, the discovery of a large, intact specimen is rare.

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