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Article: BENCHLEY'S BEAST: SQUID ON A RAMPAGE.(TV BOOK)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- April 28, 1996
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Byline: Kate O'Hare Tribune Media Services
``Squid! Squid!'' doesn't have quite the same punch as ``Shark! Shark!''
But maybe it should.
After frightening an entire generation out of the ocean with ``Jaws,'' author and oceanographer Peter Benchley has created a new underwater terror - architeuthis dux or the great squid - the world's largest invertebrate.
``Squids have all the nightmares you can imagine,'' said Benchley, whose ``Jaws'' became the hallmark for underwater terror. ``(They have) the largest eyes in the animal kingdom; a beak like a parrot - they found one 9 inches wide that could tear a human being apart.'' And don't ...