Giant Squid Plastinated

Anybody that has seen, or even just heard about, the "Body Worlds" exhibit recently featured at the Museum of Science should be familiar with "plastination" - in a nutshell, it involves replacing all the bodily fluids of a living creature with a polymer, thus retaining the "living" look of the specimen.

Seeing this story now makes me realize that this is the future of animal display in our museums and I, for one, am all for it!

Bring on the creepy, life like, cadavers!

More on the giant squid above (measuring a mere 21 feet in length) here.