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Before the discovery of the Giant & Colossal Squid, what was used to explain the scars on Sperm Whales resulting from encounters with the giant cephalopods? Did naturalist's suspect there was a giant undiscovered species of Cephalopod?

by /u/avaslash in /r/AskHistorians

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