From the Vault: Of Humans and Squids, with Martin Wallen
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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Aristotle's Squids Beak
Aristotle analysed the descriptions of creatures he had seen. He concluded that all these accounts referred to one very real creature. The squids beak is like a hawks beak or a parrot's beak. So it's really sharp and curved and that's the terror flesh. And with that name, he basically cleared up the ambiguity in Aristotle.
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