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The mighty Flying Squid Squadron!
Squids ‘can fly 100 feet through the air’
The oceanic squid can fly more than 100 feet through the air at speeds faster than Usain Bolt if it wants to escape predators, Japanese researchers said.
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Yamamoto and his team were tracking a shoal of around 100 oceanic squid in the northwest Pacific 600 kilometres (370 miles) east of Tokyo, in July 2011.
As their boat approached, the 20 centimetre (8-inch) creatures launched themselves into the air with a powerful jet of water that shot out from their funnel-like stems.
“Once they finish shooting out the water, they glide by spreading out their fins and arms,” Yamamoto’s team said in a report.
“As they land back in the water, the fins are all folded back into place to minimise the impact.”
Can’t wait for when group inevitably lands on some loungers on a beach or boat deck. Hilarity, as they say, would ensue.
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