The remaining skin on the squid's mantle — the muscular sheath that houses its organs — gleamed ghostly white in the sun. 👻
The massive, sucker-covered carcass of a giant squid washed onto the rocky shore of Scarborough Beach in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday . The beast, which measured nearly 14 feet long, was the second giant squid to crop up on a beach in the region this year, according to the South African news site news24 .
The squid that washed onto Scarborough Beach this week seemed to be another A. dux specimen, said Mike Vecchione, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration invertebrate zoologist stationed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C."Although other large squids exist, I am fairly certain this is a true giant squid," he told Live Science in an email.
See moreWithout an examination of its internal organs, it's difficult to guess how the Scarborough Beach squid perished, Vecchione said."Note that most of the skin has abraded and some of the arms are broken off, but this can result from washing up on the rocky shore." The remaining skin on the squid's mantle — the muscular sheath that houses its organs — gleamed ghostly white in the sun.
"Strandings of Architeuthis on South African shores are not unusual at all," Vecchione told Live Science."It is one of several places around the world where they show up regularly."
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