William Gilly has seen a Kraken. The mythical squid beast with ship-dooming tentacles surely exists, Gilly says, because he's seen a baby one. "It was this big around," he says, making a circle as big as a tire with his arms, a proud, boyish smile on his face. Fishermen spotted the carcass of the 2.4-metre-long, 181-kilogram baby giant squid in Monterey Bay three years ago, according to Gilly.
"If you're an assistant professor proposing to study it, I don't think you'd get tenure," he says. "But one has to exist."
By: Daniela Hernandez, Edited by: David Cornish
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/12/the-krakens-cousin
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