Look what the UPS man brought!

Marine biology teacher Rob Yeomans has been teaching his students at Newburyport High School about the aggressive, predatory sea creature of the Pacific known as the giant Humboldt squid for some time. But situated here on the Northeast coast, he never imagined he'd get to show them one up close.

Thanks to the generosity of professor Bill Gilly of Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, Calif., Yeomans won't have to depend on the Discovery Channel to introduce his students to the squid this year.

Gilly, whose life's work is studying the cannibalistic West Coast creature, recently sent Yeomans a 6-foot long Humboldt squid. It arrived packed in dry ice and has been sitting in Yeomans' freezer at home ever since, awaiting dissection by his marine biology class.

Full article here. Lucky students -- though I myself had a pretty amazing elementary school biology teacher who kept a salt-water aquarium in his classroom, and who once brought in a dead seal for dissection.

Posted by David on March 26, 2009 2:19 PM