1. A giant squid is one of the biggest animals on the planet.
2. A squid can be as long as a school bus.
3. The real giant squid largest ever recorded by scientists was almost 43 feet (13 meters) long.
4. The giant squid weighs nearly a ton.
5. Giant squids live in deep oceans of North Atlantic,the Gulf of Mexico, Hawaii, and California.
6. Giant squids live in deep oceans between 3000 to 6000 feet (1 – 2 km).
7. The giant squid have never been captured alive.
8. This colossal squid is currently on display at a national museum in New Zealand. It’s the largest known squids which grow upto 46 feet in length.
9. The Giant squid hearts are likely to be counted as 3.
10. Giant squids have the largest eyes of any living creatures in the world.
11. Eye of the giant squid Is10 inches in diameter. It is almost size of the beach ball.
12. Their huge eyes enables them to detect objects in an ambience with light-less.
13. They have eight arms and two feeding tentacles that helps them to bring food to their beak-like mouth.
14. Food menu a giant squid are fish, shrimp, and other squid.
Sperm whale vs giant squid:
15. Is it a trending one, YES !! Squids usually hunts small sized whales. It is an animal eating Largest mammal on the earth.
16. On the other end the largest sperm whales hunts giant squids as prey.
17. Giant squid is one of the most mysterious creatures as they live in very deep and cold water which is not easily accessible.
18. They have strong jaws which is of parrot beak shape.
19. As the size of Giant squid is huge it’s one of the fastest moving squids in the ocean.
20. The only known predator of the giant squid is the sperm whale. They love to chewing on squids.
21. Just like other squids, giant squid releases ink which masks the trails and facilitates its escape. Some squids even produces and release luminescent ink.
22. Giant squids do not live long. Females die immediately after spawning, at the age of three years.
23. They have 2 eyes, a beak, 8 arms, 2 feeding tentacles, and a funnel.
24. These feeding tentacles are very long, often they double the total length of a giant squid on their own.
25. The longest mantle length on record is 7.4 feet (2.25 meters); the length from the tip of the top fin to the end of the arms rarely exceeds 16 feet (5 meters).
26. The ocean holds an estimated 500 species of squid. Almost all of those are in the same taxonomic order as the giant squid, called Oegopsina.
27. Some are surprisingly about only 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) in length. Others are impressively large, including the colossal squid reaching 45 feet (14 meters).
