POSTED: 2:19 pm HST July 5, 2007
UPDATED: 3:36 pm HST July 5, 2007
HONOLULU -- Scientists at the University of Hawaii at Manoa will soon have a chance to investigate a creature that appears to be half squid, half octopus that was found in waters off the Big Island.
It appears that the creature was sucked up in a deep seawater pipeline at the Natural Energy Laboratory Hawaii Authority at Keahole on the Big Island.
The pipeline pumps cold water up from 3,000 feet below sea level. Occasionally deep-sea marine life will get caught in a filter in the line, officials said.
Workers call the latest find an "octosquid." It has the body of a squid and the tentacles of an octopus.
It is being shipped to University of Hawaii Manoa campus for closer evaluation.
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