Kraken A close knit family

[Darlica]

Gigant squids from all over the world are closely related.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/03/20/3719591.htm

Thomas Gilbert from the Centre for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen has analysed the mitochondrial DNA of 43 specimens collected from around the world and the differences are so small that they are quite sure that there only is one species instead of three or eight as was earlier suspected.


       

[Aggie]

Very interesting.... as the article says, this implies that they are long-distance seafarers, and may travel many oceans during their life.

[pieces o nine]

Clearly they are of the same kind.

              

[Griffin NoName]

Ah! Perhaps not 2.7% Neanderthal like Ediie Izzard.