Giant Deep-Sea Creature Amazes Spanish Scientists
                           Reuters
                           Nov 3 2000 4:35PM

                           MADRID (Reuters) - Fishermen off northern
Spain have captured a giant
                           specimen of a strange, light-emitting, deep
sea cephalopod, scientists
                           said Friday.

                           The octopus-like creature, a taningia danae,
weighs in at 275 pounds,
                           measures seven feet and is easily the biggest
of its type discovered.

                           Disappointingly for big eaters near the
Asturian port of Ribadesella it
                           will not end up on their plates, but will be
preserved and displayed in a
                           marine center whose most impressive
cephalopod to date was a mere
                           140 pound example.

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