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• The colossal squid being caught in the Ross Sea off Antarctica in February 2007. It was estimated at about 1,100 pounds and 26 feet.
• A fisherman shows off the colossal squid aboard a New Zealand fishing ship in Antarctic waters in February 2007.
• April 28: New Zealand marine scientists from left, Mark Fenwick, Olaf Blaauw, Steve O'Shea, Tsunemi Kubodera, and Kat Bolstad with the 500kg colossal squid in a thawing tank in Wellington, New Zealand. Scientists have begun thawing the world's largest squid to try to unlock some of the secrets of one of the ocean's most mysterious beasts. The 495 kilogram (1,089 pound), 8-meter (26-ft.) long colossal squid was removed from its freezer Monday and put into a tank filled with a saline solution, the first step of a plan that will eventually put it on public display.
• April 30: A colossal squid caught in the Ross Sea is thawed out in a pool of brine showing the iris of the giant eye with the help of Mark Fenwick, Museum of New Zealand technician in Wellington, New Zealand. Marine scientists working on the carcass of the world's largest landed colossal squid said Wednesday the creature's eye measures 27 centimeters (10.8 inches) across, larger than a large dinner plate and the biggest animal eye on earth.
• April 30: The squid is thawed out in a pool of brine with the help of Mark Fenwick, Museum of New Zealand technician, with Dr. Tsunemi Kubodera, Japan's National Museum of Nature and Science and Olaf Blaauw, toxicologist, Netherlands, from left to right, in Wellington, New Zealand.
• April 30: The giant eye of a colossal squid caught off Antarctica as it thaws out in a pool of brine in Wellington, New Zealand.
• April 30: Museum of New Zealand technician Mark Fenwick thaws out the largest known specimen of a colossal squid in a pool of brine in Wellington, New Zealand. Marine scientists in New Zealand were thawing the corpse of the largest squid ever caught to try to unlock the secrets of one of the ocean's most mysterious beasts.

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