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Giant squid washes up on South African beach in rare sighting
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 [NYPOST] A fully intact giant squid washed up on a beach in South Africa earlier this month — a rare sighting for an animal that was only first captured on video in its natural habitat seven years ago.
"Seeing it at first really took my breath away," Adéle Grosse, who spotted the dead animal while on a walk with her husband in Brittania Bay, told Live Science. "Honestly, it looked like a majestic prehistoric animal."
Giants squids, who usually live between 2,000 and 3,200 feet below the surface, are only seen once every few years and washed up carcasses are rarely intact, Michael Vecchione, an invertebrate zoologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, told the publication. A live giant squid has never been caught. 
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