Weird Octosquid found in Hawaii

Some people laugh at cryptozoology, but I love it. Bigfoot and Nessie are  overplayed, but stories like this one and last years white hairy lobster are my kind of cryptozoology. What a wonderfully weird world we live in.

UH Researchers To Investigate ‘Octosquid’
from www.thehawaiichannel.com

HONOLULU — Scientists at the University of Hawaii at Manoa will soon have a chance to investigate a creature that appears to be half squid, half octopus that was found in waters off the Big Island.

It appears that the creature was sucked up in a deep seawater pipeline at the Natural Energy Laboratory Hawaii Authority at Keahole on the Big Island.

The pipeline pumps cold water up from 3,000 feet below sea level. Occasionally deep-sea marine life will get caught in a filter in the line, officials said.

Workers call the latest find an “octosquid.” It has the body of a squid and the tentacles of an octopus.

It is being shipped to University of Hawaii Manoa campus for closer evaluation.