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Ice Cold Giant Squid Arm Fragment Spit Out by Sperm Whale | Ogasawara, Japan

I retrieved this after joining a female sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) that had just surfaced from a foraging dive. She had some Architeuthis giant squid arm fragments stuck on her face, and she spat out this piece. When I grabbed this squid arm fragment, it was ice cold.

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I retrieved this after joining a female sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) that had just surfaced from a foraging dive. She had some Architeuthis giant squid arm fragments stuck on her face, and she spat out this piece. When I grabbed this squid arm fragment, it was ice cold.