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Survival Skills of the Elusive Giant Squid - 6/24/14

By John Racanelli
Published June 25, 2014 at 5:28 PM EDT

Its eye is the size of your head. It lives more than 3,000 feet deep in oceans around the world and is 30 feet long, yet it lacks a backbone. With eight arms and two tentacles, it is the origin of the myth of the Kraken.

Its only predator is the sperm whale, whose numerous battle scars show evidence of this strange, epic battle between mammal and mollusk. I speak of the giant squid.

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John Racanelli
As chief executive officer, John Racanelli leads a team of 600 full and part-time employees and 1,000 volunteers in pursuing the National Aquarium’s mission to inspire conservation of the world’s aquatic treasures. More than 1.5 million people annually visit the Aquarium’s venue in Baltimore, Maryland, while millions more are touched by the Aquarium’s education programs, outreach activities, social media campaigns and conservation initiatives.
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