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Article: One gigantic mystery: scientists use clues to reveal the secretive life of the giant squid.(LIFE MOLLUSKS)
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- Science World
- Article date:
- March 6, 2006
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Last fall, word spread around the globe at lightning speed: Japanese scientists had snapped photos of the elusive giant squid swimming deep in the Pacific Ocean. "Until then, no one had ever seen the creature alive," says Neil Landman, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York.
Although the scientist spends most of his time analyzing fossils, or traces of ancient marine organisms, Landman studies the giant squid too. His goal: to unravel some of the animal's mystery and hopefully apply that knowledge to his studies of long-extinct sea creatures. "I used to say that it would be a quantum leap in our understanding of the giant ...