Shark vs squid

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Leviathans may battle in remote depths
New studies suggest that great white sharks may migrate so they can dine on giant squids.

By Jill Leovy
March 7, 2010


In what could be the ultimate marine smack-down, great white sharks off the California coast may be migrating 1,600 miles west to do battle with creatures that rival their star power: giant squids.

A series of studies tracking this mysterious migration has scientists rethinking not just what the big shark does with its time but also what sort of creature it is.

Few sea denizens match great white sharks and giant squids in primitive mystique. Both are the subject of popular mania; both are inscrutable. That these two mythic sea monsters might convene for epic battles in the stark expanses of the Pacific is enough to make a documentarian salivate.

For more reserved scientists, the possible link between sharks and squid, suggested by marine ecologist Michael Domeier of the Marine Conservation Science Institute in Fallbrook, is just one part of emerging research that has altered their understanding of the great whites.

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[kestrel91316]

1. Cool research. Sea creatures are so mysterious, almost like aliens.........

[elehhhhna]

2. especially when carribean squid armies hover around you

all equidiustant from your body -- changing color and posture -- until your stoopid brother paddles over and scares them...