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How do you defrost a giant squid? With a giant microwave!
 The monster from the deep faces the ultimate indignity: being microwaved in the interests of science.Donate your body to SCIENCE! The colossal squid landed by New Zealand fishermen last month is now officially the largest caught, after weighing in at 1,089lb (540kg), nearly 100lb heavier than initial estimates. But scientists itching to study it more closely face the challenge of how to thaw it out. The creature was frozen to preserve it during its journey from Antarctica to New Zealand's national museum, Te Papa Tongarewa, in the capital, Wellington. Now the international BIG SQUID museum. The problem with leaving the 33ft-long (10m) squid to defrost naturally at room temperature, experts say, is that the process would take so long - probably several days - that its outer tissue would rot while they waited for inner sections to thaw. Posted by: Free Radical 2007-03-23 |
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