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	Squid - MSN Encarta
		Squid can swim faster than any other invertebrate by rapidly expelling water from the mantle cavity through the funnel, which can be turned in order to direct movement.
		In the male squid, one smaller arm is modified for the purpose of planting a packet of sperm (a spermatophore) in the female’s oviduct.
		The common squid of eastern North Atlantic coasts is 30 to 45 cm (12 to 18 in) long, and the giant squid, at least 18 m (60 ft) long, used to be considered the largest aquatic invertebrate.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552165/Squid.html (399 words)

	Squid - Search View - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The common squid of the east North Atlantic coast is 30 to 45 cm (12 to 18 in) long, and the giant squid, at least 18 m (60 ft) long, is the largest aquatic invertebrate.
		The common squid of the east North Atlantic coast belongs to the family Loliginidae and is classified as Loligo vulgaris.
		The giant squid is classified in the genus Architeuthis of the family Architeuthidae.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761552165__1/Squid.html (416 words)

	CFAST Publications - Squid - An Underutilized Species (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Squid are among the most successful and numerous of all larger animals in the sea, and there are an estimated 350 species in the world.
		Squid generally propel themselves by the motion of their fins, but in conditions of stress or sudden changes they can pump water out of the mantle through a siphon (or funnel), shooting water backward with great force and moving rapidly in the other direction.
		In squid, the edible portion represents 60-80 percent of the weight of the animal, the trunk being 50 percent and the arms being 30 percent.
	www.cfast.vt.edu /Publications/squid.shtml (2013 words)

	squid
		Squid is the common name for a group of carnivorous marine mollusks in the class Cephalopoda.
		Squids have elongated, slender bodies with triangular caudal fins.The common squid is often found in coastal regions along the eastern United States.
		Squids are blue-blooded animals because their respiratory-system pigment is a copper compound rather than the red iron found in mammals.Squids are able to change color rapidly by contracting and expanding pigment granules, called chromatophores.
	www.cbv.ns.ca /MCHS/diversity/squid.htm (279 words)

	Giant Squid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The giant squid is a member of the mollusk phylum and is member of the cephalopod class, which includes the octopus and other squids.
		A squid can also launch itself out of the water while moving at high speed, appearing to fly, which would be unnerving to a superstitious sailor on a whaling ship.
		The first picture of a giant squid was taken at a depth of ____________ feet.
	members.aol.com /ksmith9526/GiantSquid.htm (795 words)

	Giant squid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Giant squids are marine mollusks of the class Cephalopoda represented by the eight species of the genus Architeuthis.
		Despite their great length giant squid are particularly heavy in weight compared to its predator – the sperm whale – due to the majority of length being made up by its eight and two tentacles.
		Tales of giant squid have been common mariners since ancient times and may have to the Norwegian legend of the kraken a tentacled sea monster as large as an island capable engulfing and sinking any ship.
	www.freeglossary.com /Giant_squid (753 words)

	Giant squid
		Giant squids, once believed to be mythical creatures, are squid of the Architeuthidae family, represented by as many as eight species of the genus Architeuthis.
		Sketch of giant squid in Glover's Harbour Newfoundland in 1878
		Steenstrup, the describer of Architeuthis, suggested a giant squid was the species described as a sea monk to the Danish king Christian III c.1550.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Giant_squid.php (1881 words)

	HMSC Pre-Visit Activity Guide
		Squid are invertebrates in the phylum Molluska, a group that includes snails, clams and oysters.
		Squid are the fastest swimmers among the invertebrates.
		Squid feed on fish, jellyfish, crab and shellfish and in turn they are one of the major food animals of the seas.
	hmsc.oregonstate.edu /education/school/creaturefeatures/squid.html (1362 words)

	Giant Squid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Giant Squid has five pairs of arms and his eyes are 25 cm or 10 inches wide.
		If the giant squid is in warm water he will float to the surface and he won't be able to get down.
		The giant squid was found in Timble Tickle.The giant squid leaves bubble shape scars on whales.
	www.spebb.k12.nf.ca /wildlife/gsquidg.html (285 words)

	WhaleTimes:Fishin' for Facts-Giant Squid
		The average size of the giant squid is 6 to 13 meters (19.7 to 42.7 feet) That is total length.
		Squid in the genus Architeuthi are found in: northern Atlantic, from Labrador to the Gulf of Mexico; northern Norway to the Azores; northern Pacific from the Bering Sea to the Sea of Japan: southern Japan, Hawaii and California.
		Giant squid are the largest cephalopod (octopus, cuttlefish, squid) and the largest mollusk.
	www.whaletimes.org /squid.htm (222 words)

	Architeuthis dux, Giant Squid at MarineBio.org
		The Giant squid, Architeuthis dux (Steenstrup, 1857), of the Family Architeuthidae is possibly the largest known cephalopod, the largest known mollusk and, likely, the largest invertebrate ever known to exist (except for possibly the Colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni which may have a mantle length nearly twice the size...).
		Giant squid are wide-ranging usually found near continental and island slopes from the North Atlantic Ocean, especially Newfoundland, Norway, northern British Isles and the oceanic islands of the Azores and Madeira to the South Atlantic in southern African waters; the North Pacific around Japan, and the southwestern Pacific around New Zealand and Australia.
		Giant squid capture prey using the 2 feeding tentacles, which grip the prey with serrated saw-like sucker rings on the ends (called the tentacle clubs) bringing it toward the powerful beak.
	marinebio.org /species.asp?id=156 (1938 words)

	Ladywildlife's Loligo Squid Page
		The squid are attracted to light, so the fishermen hang lamps on their boats to encourage them to rise to the surface.
		But fishing is controlled because, if the squid were hunted on a larger scale, it would endanger the other marine life that preys on the squid for food.
		Giant squid of up to 60 ft. (including tentacles) are found in the northern Atlantic Ocean.
	ladywildlife.com /animal/loligosquid.html (760 words)

	Squid
		Squids are invertebrates, meaning they have no backbone, and they are also mollusks, meaning they have shells.
		Squid have 10 arms, two of which are tentacles with flattened ends covered with suckers.
		Squids can change color to blend in with the environment, or they shoot out ink which temporarily blinds the predator, allowing the squid to use its miraculous speed to escape.
	library.thinkquest.org /12880/squid.html (484 words)

	The New Yorker: PRINTABLES
		Giant squid are believed to roam between six hundred and three thousand feet down; it is a realm that is dark and impenetrable to humans, except those who have millions of dollars’ worth of submarines and underwater cameras.
		As is usually the case with the giant squid, the answer demands an element of conjecture, since scientists have never studied one alive.
		As a result, squid scientists speculate that the giant squid, which as a baby is about the size of a cricket, may live only about three years and grow extremely fast.
	www.newyorker.com /printables/online/040524on_onlineonly01 (1605 words)

	LiveScience.com - The Heavy Burden of a Mother Squid
		The mothers are about eight inches long from the top of their body to the end of their arms, and the addition of the egg mass extends their total length 50 to 75 percent.
		Although Seibel and his colleagues observed the squid repeatedly flushing water through the egg mass—probably to aerate the eggs in the middle—aggressive swimming shook the mass and caused some of the eggs to fall off.
		A squid carrying undeveloped eggs was able to escape by vigorous fin and mantle contractions, but one with advanced eggs could not move away.
	www.livescience.com /animalworld/051214_squid_eggs.html (607 words)

	U-Haul SuperGraphics: Newfoundland Giant Squid
		Imagination and fear-mongering aside, this sea creature is simply known as the giant squid - a squid that can weigh up to 1,000 pounds - the weight of an average horse - and grow to about 60 feet when the tentacles are extended, similar to a large whale.
		Scientists have noted that most of the giant squid sightings and strandings in Newfoundland have occurred on its northeastern shores, in the Bonavista and Trinity bays, and there have been strandings in the 1970's and 1980's.
		Giant squid appear to be the loners of the squid class and scientists don't know if they ever swim with others, or if they are generally creatures who prefer their own company.
	www.uhaul.com /supergraphics/squid/two.html (1875 words)

	"Weird" New Squid Species Discovered in Deep Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The new squid could be an adult member of the species but researchers can't say for certain until they have caught a specimen.
		The squid live in very deep water and their bodies are very fragile and would probably be eaten long before reaching the surface.
		The bacteria steal 4 percent of the squid's oxygen supply to fuel the light-producing chemical reaction—which is the same reaction as the one that produces light in fireflies.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2001/12/1220_TVweirdsquid.html (821 words)

	Squids
		The Long-finned Squid is native to the Atlantic seaboard and belongs to the phylum Molluska.
		Squid range from one inch to the Architeuthis princepes, which is estimated to be the largest invertebrate at 65 feet.
		While the squid uses its fins for propulsion, it also draws in water through a mantle cavity pushing it out the other end of its body by means of a muscular "siphon".
	www.milton.edu /academics/pages/marinebio/squids.html (789 words)

	Metroactive Features \| Giant Squid
		But in the pursuit of giant squid, the strike is hardly dramatic—just a sudden dull resistance—and the fight lasts 15 minutes or more and is relatively boring.
		The squid approaches the surface, as alien and dangerous to it as the bottom of the sea would be to a person.
		The prevailing aspect of the squid fishery is its grotesqueness: the ink, the slime, the squid writhing on the gaff, the sheer mass of dead creatures, and the fact that fishermen happily pay 80 bucks apiece to produce such pulpy carnage.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/03.29.06/squid-0613.html (3609 words)

	squid.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The penguin came close but the squids went down onto the sand and the coler of the squid’s skin changed rapidly camouflaging them to aviod being attacked and eaten by the penguin.
		The giant squid, which lives in the north Atlantic may reach 17m (56ft) in length and weigh 3000 kilos.
		In the day time squids go deep in the water, close to the bottom of the ocean where the temperature is 6 to7’C, or waramer.
	www.asmilan.org /eschool/inter/oceans/squid/squid.html (261 words)

	Seafish. On Land. Fish facts. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Architeuthis dux, also known as the Atlantic Giant Squid, is the largest creature never to have been observed in its own habitat.
		This is because scientists are not sure exactly where in the ocean the giant squid lives.
		The largest fish is the plankton-feeding whale shark, which is found in the warmer areas of the Atlantic Pacific and the Indian Oceans.
	www.seafish.org /plate/facts.asp?p=gi188 (397 words)

	Antipixel \| Blog \| Giant Squid Attacks Boat
		They weren’t referring to giant squid as in the monstrous creature who kills sperm whales, they were referring to giant squids as in bigger then normal squids.
		I am doing a report on the Architeuthis dux (giant squid) There has been alot of scientific research done on these creatures they are rarely at the surface of the ocean if they are they are usually near death.
		These squid are not predetors of whales however some attacks have been known to happen and smaller whales have been found in the digestive system of these squid.
	www.antipixel.com /blog/archives/2003/01/17/giant_squid_attacks_boat.html (1435 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| 'Mystery' squid delights scientists
		The squid's arms are longer than those of any known squid species and held in an unusual position: spread outward from the body and then bent anteriorly.
		The scientists speculate that the squid may be an adult member of the recently identified family called Magnapinnidae (which means "big fin").
		The assessment of the squid is based on photographs and video images taken by eight independent scientists from eight institutions in four countries.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/1723595.stm (422 words)

	The Search for Giant Squid Curriculum Module: Background Content for Teachers
		A giant squid suffocates when it finds its way into water that is too warm (near the surface), because, some scientists believe, its blood can no longer hold all the oxygen it needs to live.
		Giant squids do not have any gas spaces in their bodies, which means they do not have soft bladders filled with gas to keep them from sinking as fish have.
		Giant squid eyes are the largest in the animal kingdom, 25-40 centimeters in diameter.
	giantsquid.msstate.edu /Background/squidtxt.html (2426 words)

	ScienceDaily: Envisat Fishes Up Facts Behind Chilean Giant Squid Invasion
		These jumbo flying squid Dosidicus gigas is their Latin name are some of the largest known squids on the planet: the ones here measure between 70 to 150 centimetres in length, although specimens have been known to reach more than three metres.
		Squid -- Squids are the large, diverse group of marine cephalopods popular as food in cuisines as widely separated as Korean and Italian.
		Giant squid -- Giant squids, once believed to be mythical creatures, are squid of the Architeuthidae family, represented by as many as eight species of the genus Architeuthis.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2004/03/040323072405.htm (2268 words)

	Vessel Main (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In fact, the North Atlantic Ocean has coughed up a good number of giant squid over the centuries, though now we know they are not serpents or monsters, just squid.
		Sea serpent bodies are the same shape as giant squid arms and tentacles.
		And we refer to giant teuthids as Architeuthis, which we might take in everyday language to mean primo, number one, head chief, or boss.
	www.mnh.si.edu /natural_partners/squid4/ArchiteuthisHistorical.html (335 words)

	Ocean Planet: Popular Science - He seeks the giant squid
		The giant squid is a member of the cephalopods ("head-foot"), the class of marine animals that also includes the cuttlefish, the octopus, and the chambered nautilus.
		The mesmerizing eyes of the giant squid, with a prominent dark iris, are the largest in the animal kingdom, as big as hubcaps.
		Indeed, sightings of giant squid over the centuries are undoubtedly responsible for the vast lore of sea monster tales.
	seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov /OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/ps_roper.html (1860 words)

	Squid and Octopus- Clipart ETC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is closely related to the squids and cuttlefishes, but has the body enclosed in a flat-spiral shell.
		Squid The squid is the best example of the cephalopod group.
		Squids swim in schools and feed on young herring and mackerel.
	etc.usf.edu /clipart/galleries/Animals/squid_octopus.htm (911 words)

	All Things Considered: Deep-Sea Squid Encounters
		She had acquired a video of a strange squid shot from a submersible deep in the Gulf of Mexico.
		The squid have 10 arms, though two of them are technically called tentacles, and they appear to have suckers on part of the arms -- much like other squid.
		It's not the giant squid that's known to inhabit the deep sea.
	www.npr.org /programs/atc/features/2001/dec/squid/011220.squid.html (737 words)

	Squid
		Giant squid from Mexico and Argentina are usually available as frozen tenderized steaks.
		Squid caught in U.S. waters often appear in markets frozen, and are then thawed, but they can also be bought fresh.
		Freezing does not harm squid and may be a benefit, as it tends to soften the sometimes very firm muscle fibers.
	www.gianteagle.com /healthnotes/Food_Guide/Squid.htm (822 words)

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