Photo: Colossal Squid Thawing; Hints at Even Bigger Beasts

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Fishers haul up an accidentally caught colossal squid off Antarctica on February 22, 2007. The biggest squid ever caught, the giant was later frozen and is undergoing examination at a lab in New Zealand, including a thawing process that began on April 29, 2008.

Photograph courtesy New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries via Getty Images

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