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Undersea, overhead

By Mark Alden Branch ’86 | 11:10am July 18 2019

Built at the Peabody Museum and first displayed in 1968, this model of a giant squid (Architeuthis dux) has loomed over the museum’s entrance hall since 2004. Thirty-seven feet long, it depicts a young specimen—the adults grow up to 60 feet long.

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