Dozens of Jumbo Squid Beached After Quake--Coincidence?
By Matt J. Weiss, July 15, 2009 @ 09:32 AM (EST)
Source: Nationalgeographic.com
According to local news reports, some beachgoers in the city of La Jolla attempted to throw the squid back into the water to save them from circling seagulls.
The mysterious jumbo squid stranding and the earthquake, though, are probably linked only by coincidence, experts say (jumbo squid picture wallpaper).
For one thing, scientists began finding beached squid at least three days before the Saturday earthquake, said squid expert William Gilly of Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station.
"So unless the squid were predicting the earthquake, I don't think there's any link," he added.
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