Previously marine biologists thought the 8 meter giant squid was a cannibal because fellow giant squid bits were found inside a specimen caught off Tasmania in 1999. Now marine scientists say that the deep-sea monsters do not mean to eat each other but that the female accidentally bits off the male during mating! "It's not intentional cannibalism; it's inadvertent," explained New Zealand-based marine biologist Steve O'Shea at the international cephalopod conference in Hobart this week.
Monday, February 06, 2006
Kinky Not Cannibal
Previously marine biologists thought the 8 meter giant squid was a cannibal because fellow giant squid bits were found inside a specimen caught off Tasmania in 1999. Now marine scientists say that the deep-sea monsters do not mean to eat each other but that the female accidentally bits off the male during mating! "It's not intentional cannibalism; it's inadvertent," explained New Zealand-based marine biologist Steve O'Shea at the international cephalopod conference in Hobart this week.
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