NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Government scientists reached down 1,500 feet off Louisiana‘s coast and pulled up a giant squid, the first ever caught in the Gulf of Mexico. The last time scientists got a giant squid from the Gulf, it was 1954 and the animal was dead and floating. This one, caught alive, was hauled up July 30. The squid is just over 19 feet long and weighed 103 pounds. It‘s now at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington.–Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]