They’ve been washing up on shore for over a century. What do you mean ‘evidence discovered’?
Can someome PLEASE get a banana down there?
Anything but metric.
Yeah like two extremely relatable and immediately identifiable sizes that are much more visceral than saying ~13.3-16m and ~38cm
Both school busses and pizzas change in size around the world. Metres do not
I hate to break it to you, but when someone states anything in metric, I immediately have a feel for how large that is. That’s because we usually state everything in metric, so we don’t need to refer to random stuff and just learn the sizes of everything.
And yet I still have no idea how big the squid is. Buses range in size dramatically.
No they don’t? And we can see the proportions.
A “school bus” can be a local mini that’s like 8-10?m long, or a medium like 15-metre one. A “school bus” (as it would be near me) can also be an articulated main route bus that has three high schools and a major university on both ends of the corridor, at like 30 metres long.
Ditto pizzas. A “large” is such an arbitrary measurement.
as for “seeing” the proportions… if you gave me that picture and told me it was shrimp-sized (also a bit ambiguous), I couldn’t question it. At best, the “pizza” and “bus” provide order of magnitude estimates.
So do large pizzas.
How much is that in football fields?
About a 200th of a football field.
bigger than a school bus describes a Bodega, the eiffel tower, Mexico, Jupiter and the entirety of the universe.
Everything except for smaller stuff. You know, things like tires, lug nuts, screws, atoms, electrons, etc.
What is large pizza? The only size of pizza I know is pizza. How many seats does the school bus have? That can easily change by 15 meters.
In the US, pizzas have basically been standardized by the national chains to be 10 inch (25cm) for a small, 12 inch (30 cm) for a medium, and 14 inch (36 cm) for a large.
Honestly, this is probably the most effective way to communicate circle sizes to me, as I am quite familiar with exactly how big each of those sizes are.
I’m obviously familiar with other lengths as lengths, but for flat circles, there’s not really a better intuitive comparison.
In Italy a pizza is a pizza. Size can vary a little bit restaurant to restaurant, but no way you can ask a different size pizza than the one you’re being served.
Some places may offer slightly smaller ones for kids, but that’s quite uncommon.
As you can see, this is not at all a reliable way to communicate sizes: I have no way to decypher how large a large pizza is.
That’s exactly my point. While this may make sense for your average fast food loving American, it just doesn’t in the rest of the world.
Them there’s also the problem the fast food corpos made themselves when they expand internationally, they have to downsize their portion sizes because the rest of the world doesn’t eat like fast food loving Americans.
But is it a metric pizza or an imperial pizza?
How many pizzas in a school bus?
About 8 pizzas the size of small/large boulder.
Metric you filthy barbarian!
This is perfect for the Anything but Metric comm!
Also nice detail that it’s a large pizza not small oder medium 👌
Found the German.
What’s going on in the left photo? Does the squid have bioluminescent danglers at the front?
Maybe it’s like my cat when I catch her on my security cams in night mode. Fuckin lasers.
Lasers, how do they work?!
How big in terms of burgers
at least 3 burgers
original article here: https://nypost.com/2026/05/07/science/evidence-of-giant-squid-spotted-off-australia-in-historic-find/
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/giant-squid-edna-australia
btw the second image is from 2020
This is the most terrifying thing I’ve ever studied furiously
I’m going to need a bigger jig.
