| Giant Squid Facts | | | | troubled the squid researchers as nothing was |
| The giant squid is one of the monstrous creatures | | | | known about this giant creature. But recent |
| still alive and always alluring many researchers | | | | studies have generated some success and a few |
| around the world but till this time seems more | | | | details are now known about this creature. The |
| mystifying as none of the giant squids are | | | | food habit of the giant squid have also been a |
| captured alive and the research is based on the | | | | great mystery for the researchers but some of |
| corpses which are washed ashore. This has led | | | | the recent studies on these creatures show that |
| the scientists and researchers to study this | | | | giant squid eat deep-sea fishes, such as orange |
| mammoth sea creature from the carcasses | | | | ruffie, and hokie. They also eat some other |
| washed ashore. With limited samples, the | | | | species of squids, such as deep-sea squids, and |
| researchers have been able to know some | | | | not architeuthis, not the giant squid. |
| amazing facts about this mammoth sea creature | | | | Another interesting factor about the giant squid is |
| and one such aspect is its intelligence. Yes! The | | | | the eight arms it has which can grow up to 3 |
| giant squids are intelligent creatures and it is no | | | | meters in length, but eventually none of them are |
| myth. Most of the giant squid are highly intelligent | | | | used to grab prey. These two longer tentacles |
| and at times very gentle There is an alien | | | | actually catch the prey. Giant squid have tentacles |
| intelligence existing beneath the deep waters, a | | | | that may grow a length of 10-12 meters. At the |
| bizarre life form that appears to be breeding by | | | | other end, away from the head, the tentacles |
| the hundreds in cold black waters far below the | | | | expand to look like clubs. Both arms and tentacles |
| surface. This intelligence resides in the giant squids | | | | are equipped with suckers, which are sub-spherical |
| that have three hearts, primate-like stereoscopic | | | | cups lined with sharp, finely jagged rings of chitin. |
| eyes, blue blood and brains large enough to | | | | Suckers use powerful suction to hold onto prey |
| suggest they are among the smartest creatures | | | | while the rings of chitin sink into the ill-fated animal. |
| on earth. | | | | The arms have suckers arranged in rows from |
| The giant squids are smart hunters and during | | | | the base near the mantle to the tips, whereas |
| their hunt for food they make use of this quality, | | | | the tentacles are smooth from the base to near |
| the intelligence, very much. Giant squids have | | | | the club where there are small suckers |
| been called the most opportunistic killers in the | | | | However, on records the largest squid found is |
| sea. They have been observed employing | | | | Largest recorded giant squid was a female that |
| cooperative hunting techniques, yet they will not | | | | washed ashore on a New Zealand beach in 1887 |
| vacillate to overeat upon one another should they | | | | 18 meters long (59.5 feet). Its mantle was 5 |
| sense the slightest possible opening. It is being | | | | meters (16.4 feet). It weighed 1 metric ton. |
| found that they will attack anything over which | | | | Scientists and squid researchers have being trying |
| they sense an advantage, including humans. | | | | their level best to capture or study a living giant |
| Giant squids have been the most mystifying sea | | | | squid but till this time their hard efforts have not |
| creature since a long time with more myths and | | | | bearded fruits. |
| tales than concrete scientific information. This has | | | | |