[News]: What’s 30 Feet Long with Eight Legs, a Big Beak, and a Life of ... - The San

Interesting that the video has Arkhipkin (president of CIAC, I guess) saying age determination by counting rings on the statolith gives much younger estimates for Architeuthis than some sort of radiocarbon trick.
 
Counting rings on the eye lens, and increments on the gladius also give very different age estimates. Basically no technique has been validated for cold water/deep-sea species of squid.

... maybe something interesting will happen in the austral summer of 2009.:wink:
 

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