LISBON (Reuters) - A giant squid has washed up on a Portuguese beach, a rare occurrence for the deep-water creature, a museum spokeswoman said on Thursday.
Bathers found the dead 21.5-foot-long animal on Wednesday on a beach near Melides, about 50 miles south of Lisbon, a spokeswoman for the Oceanographic Museum of Portinho da Arrabida said.
Nature reserve workers transported the 110-pound cephalopod to the museum, she said. It has been frozen awaiting examination and classification.
Giant squid normally live at depths of 1,600 to 3,300 feet, and usually sink when they die.
A giant squid with tentacles measuring at least 15 yards in length washed up on an Australian beach in July.
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