<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bd2f6f22-5a3a-4b95-a442-c9cce1fabd8f/723D3E6E-4890-462E-9200-D869117B08A1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/index.html" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/index.html" style="font-size: 11px;">news.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/index.html"><TR><TD valign="top" align="center" colspan="2"><IMG width="461" height="307" border="0" alt=" RARE PHOTOS: Giant Squid Eaten by Sperm Whale" src="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/images/primary/091030-01-whale-eating-jumbo-squid_big.jpg" /> </TD></TR><TR valign="top"><TD align="left"><DIV> </DIV></TD></TR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/index.html"><DIV> <B>October 29, 2009—</B>Carrying the remains of a roughly 30-foot (9-meter) <A href="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/giant-squid.html">giant squid</A> in her jaws, a female <A href="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/sperm-whale.html">sperm whale</A>, with a calf at her side, swims near the surface off <A href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_japan.html">Japan</A>'s <A href="http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/maps/map-machine#s=r&c=26.302529542158908,%20141.75489798188207&z=6">Bonin Islands (map)</A>in the northwestern Pacific. Taken on October 15, this and other "absolutely sensational" new pictures offer rare proof of the sperm whale's taste for giant squid, said giant squid expert Steve O'Shea of the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand.</DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/photo2.html" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/photo2.html" style="font-size: 11px;">news.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/photo2.html"><TR><TD valign="top" align="center" colspan="2"><IMG width="461" height="252" border="0" alt=" RARE PHOTOS: Giant Squid Eaten by Sperm Whale" src="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/images/primary/091030-02-whale-eating-jumbo-squid_big.jpg" /> </TD></TR><TR valign="top"><TD align="left"><DIV> </DIV></TD></TR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/photo2.html"><DIV> Eating on the run, a female sperm whale carries the remains of a giant squid off the Bonin Islands, about 621 miles (1,000 kilometers) south of Tokyo, on October 15, 2009. </DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/photo3.html" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/photo3.html" style="font-size: 11px;">news.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/photo3.html"><TR><TD valign="top" align="center" colspan="2"><IMG width="461" height="307" border="0" alt=" RARE PHOTOS: Giant Squid Eaten by Sperm Whale" src="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/images/primary/091030-03-humboldt-squid-sperm-whale_big.jpg" /> </TD></TR><TR valign="top"><TD align="left"><DIV> </DIV></TD></TR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/photo3.html"><DIV> A female sperm whale, carrying a piece of giant squid in her mouth, leads a gargantuan dinner party in the northwestern Pacific on October 15, 2009. Sperm whales are voracious hunters of squid, and one animal can consume an estimated 110 million tons a year.</DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/photo4.html" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/photo4.html" style="font-size: 11px;">news.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/photo4.html"><TR><TD valign="top" align="center" colspan="2"><IMG width="307" height="461" border="0" alt=" RARE PHOTOS: Giant Squid Eaten by Sperm Whale" src="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/images/primary/091030-04-sperm-whale-teaching-calf-squid_big.jpg" /> </TD></TR><TR valign="top"><TD align="left"><DIV> </DIV></TD></TR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/photo4.html">a sperm whale's catch--a giant squid--drifts free</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/photo5.html" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/photo5.html" style="font-size: 11px;">news.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/photo5.html"><TR><TD valign="top" align="center" colspan="2"><IMG width="461" height="339" border="0" alt=" RARE PHOTOS: Giant Squid Eaten by Sperm Whale" src="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/images/primary/091030-05-jumbo-squid-tentacle_big.jpg" /> </TD></TR><TR valign="top"><TD align="left"><DIV> </DIV></TD></TR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/giant-squid-sperm-whale-pictures/photo5.html">(3.5-meter-long) leftover</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/723D3E6E-4890-462E-9200-D869117B08A1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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