Jumbo Squid Attack the West Coast


	Jumbo Squid Attack the West Coast

RayWatkins

6-3-2009 2:19 PM

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Researchers are using acoustics to track the population growth and territory expansion of the Humboldt squid.

Inside Science News Service
May 20, 2009
By Devin Powell

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