
Huge squid was found last Saturday at the Sea of Japan near the port city of Niigata. The total length of dead mollusk with tentacles is 3.4 meters, and most of the body - about 1.7 meters. Weight of squid is nearly 110 kg, reported today the Tokyo media.
The scientists have identified that found a copy of a "giant squid" - arhiteutisom, which is one of the world's largest representative of invertebrate animals
In the near future ocean monster will be sent to the capital of Japan, where his research will take scientists from the National Museum of Nature and Science. Until now, the Japanese ichthyologist could not deal with such a huge squid, biological "mechanism" which science has not been studied sufficiently, ITAR-TASS.