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Kubodera Tsunemi, chief of Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the National Science Museum of Japan, holds a Giant Squid preserved with Formalin in Tokyo December 22, 2006. The squid, which was about 3.5 metres (11.5 feet) long and about 50 kg (110 lbs), was caught off Ogasawara Islands on December 4. REUTERS/Kiyoshi Ota (JAPAN)