Giant "squid" In Chile Scares Vacationers

Apparently an eight year old girl was swimming in the Chinquihue beach when she began screaming for help. Several people went to her rescue and came across the giant cephalopod at waist depth, which they "stoned" to death and later pulled to the beach. The incident with the approximately fifty kilos cuttlefish was reported to authorities who called for a local marine biologist. Cristina Rodr­guez from the Oceanography Department of the local university said the specimen was a Dosidicus gigas which approached the Chilean coast because at this time of the year the sea water temperature surges as much as two degrees...