The mantle itself is over 6.6 feet long with an eye that is 3.15 inches wide, a spokesperson from the aquarium wrote online on Tuesday, describing the animal as a "MASSIVE specimen" with its longest tentacle measuring 16.4 feet in length.
"Before the birds got to it, we got help to move it to the aquarium where it is safe inside a freezer with glass windows so you can see it -- on display until we can do more with it,” Kaikoura Marine Centre and Aquarium said.
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