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Size matters?

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The marine biology community has been awash with excitement this week as some lucky representatives of it took apart a colossal squid. Caught last year in the Ross Sea off Antarctica, the specimen is only the 10th of its kind unfortunate enough to fall into the hands of scalpel-wielding scientists. The creature’s eyes have been widely acclaimed as the largest to be found in nature – an impressive 30cm in diameter. Sizable as they are, Optician’s Clinical Editor assures me the squid has relatively poor vision due to their unsophisticated nature. A case of size not being everything…

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