New Zealand Squid Thaw Put on Ice
By Wendy Heller, April 27, 2008 @ 02:00 AM (EST)
Source: Bbc.co.uk
Technicians in New Zealand have postponed until Monday the delicate process of defrosting a colossal squid caught in Antarctic waters last year.
Having removed the creature from the freezer on Sunday, the team realised it would defrost too early for a planned examination by scientists on Wednesday.
The half-tonne 10m-long squid is now back in the freezer, still wrapped in the fishing net in which it was caught.
The eventual thawing and dissection will feature in a live webcast.
The Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni specimen was caught in February 2007 in Antarctic waters...
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