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Mar 30, 2020 · 10K. 686K views 4 years ago. Highly intelligent, with powerful tentacles and a razor-sharp beak - the humboldt squid is a true terror of the deep. This 2 metre long beast has a reputation as a...
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- Anatomy, Diversity & Evolution. Anatomy. A giant squid’s body may look pretty simple: Like other squids and octopuses, it has two eyes, a beak, eight arms, two feeding tentacles, and a funnel (also called a siphon).
- Ecology & Behavior. Distribution. Giant squid are thought to swim in the ocean worldwide, based on the beaches they've washed upon, as shown in the map (via Wikimedia Commons).
- Squids at the Smithsonian. Meet Clyde Roper. Dr. Clyde Roper grew up close to the ocean and was a lobster fisherman before going to graduate school, where he studied squid.
- Cultural Connections. Giant Squid of Myth. The giant squid has captured the human imagination for more than 2,000 years. For a long time, people who spotted them floating, dead, at sea or washed up on beaches couldn’t figure out what they were.
Hundreds of powerful suckers stud the flattened club at the end of the giant squid’s long feeding tentacle. They help the squid capture and hang on tightly to its prey. They also leave deep scars in the skin around the mouths of sperm whales as the squid fight to escape from the whale’s jaws.
Sep 15, 2021 · Giant squid eat other, smaller squid species and hunt fish, including blue grenadier (Macruronus novaezelandiae), a torpedo-shaped deep-sea fish, according to the University of Michigan's...
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Jun 26, 2019 · Giant squids can be more than 40 feet long, if you measure all the way out to the tip of their two long feeding tentacles. As the students noted, the main body of the giant squid isn’t so big (and not at all impressive). It’s the long, long tentacles and arms that make them so giant.
Recent studies have shown giant squid feed on deep-sea fish, such as the orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus), and other squid species. They catch prey using the two tentacles, gripping it with serrated sucker rings on the ends.
Everything you wanted to know about the giant squid - BBC Science Focus Magazine.
