Newfoundland and Labrador (which is a single Canadian state province, in case any of my readers are as clueless as I was am) claims to have the highest concentration of preserved dead giant squid anywhere in the world. I'm pretty sure that's not true, since they have only 5 specimens and the Center for the Giant Squid in Luarca, Spain, has 23.

But five giant squid is still pretty cool, especially when each one has a story to tell, as summarized in The Telegram. My favorite is the giant squid who had to be taken off display because of a fungal infection:

Batten attempted to treat the squid’s infection in its tank but his initial efforts proved fruitless. “At the end of it, it was decided the best thing to do was to take it off display and treat it more aggressively in our facilities,” he said. It is suspected that the fungus initially managed to enter the squid’s tank when its preservative was changed earlier this year.

I wonder what kind of antifungals you prescribe to a dead squid sitting in formalin?