Some people logged onto their computers Thursday morning and discovered an amazing story circulating on social media. Showcased was an image of a monstrous giant squid that had washed ashore on a Southern California beach (top photo). The story
The giant squid hoax has come to an end as initial reports of an enormous squid have been debunked.
The original photo, however, does not include the image of a giant squid, but that of a normal-sized whale which washed up on a beach in Chile in 2011. In an article entitled “Whale found dead in Chile,” 4thmedia.org (citing
The People's Daily has, once again, demonstrated its knack for stellar fact-checking by reporting on its Facebook timeline that a 160-foot squid, mutated by the radioactivity of the waters near Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, has washed shore in
The Yomiuri Shimbun SADO, Niigata—A four-meter-long daio ika giant squid has been found inside a fixed net off Sadogashima island, Niigata Prefecture. Fisherman Shigenori Goto found the squid Wednesday morning. According to Goto, it was swimming