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Article: THE SEARCH FOR THE GIANT SQUID.(Review)
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- Whole Earth
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- March 22, 1999
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THE SEARCH FOR THE GIANT SQUID Richard Ellis. 1998; 322 pp. $35. The Lyons Press, 123 West 18th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10011, 800/836-0510, 212/620-9580, fax 212/29-1836, www.lyonspress.com.
Could it be that at this late date there is still an animal on Earth -- much less a sixty-foot-long monster with a deadly beak, eyes the size of hubcaps, and fierce talons on the ends of its tentacles -- that has eluded the encroaching eye of Homo sapiens? We know of the giant squid through a pittance of washed-up carcasses and from beaks recovered from the stomachs of sperm whales, its only known predator. We've never directly observed them alive, so they remain a ...