Friday Squid Blogging: Dissecting a Giant Squid

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From Crypto-Gram's entry Friday Squid Blogging: Dissecting a Giant Squid: In Santa Barbara. Among other dissection highlights, Hochberg pulled out plastic-like pieces, which comprised what could be best described as a backbone, as well as a translucent brownish-yellow piece of the beak, which is made of fingernail-like material. The giant squid's anatomy features a mouth at the top of the head, which means the esophagus travels through the brain. "So you have to get very small chunks of food," said Hochberg, "or you'll blow your brains out." The sharp beaks, then, are used to chomp food into tiny pieces before sending it down the esophagus, through the brain, and into the gut.

Any of you bio folks heard about this? Seems up your alley.