Largest
Squid Ever Captured Alive -
Massive Colossal Squid, 1st full specimen & biggest discovered in the world.
The largest and perhaps one of the rarest squid in the world is the colossal squid. We're going to check out footage of the biggest one ever caught and learn exactly what makes them so unique.
The colossal squid was first discovered in 1925 when fisherman removed its head and arms from inside the stomach of a sperm whale.
Since then only 8 colossal squids have been found. 6 of which were inside whales, all of them
... females as a male specimen has never been seen.
The most recent finding and biggest squid ever caught was in
2007 and measured at 33 feet long.
It was caught by accident as it attacked a big toothfish,
Patagonian toothfish, that was already hooked on a fisherman's line.
Antartica's
Ross Sea
The monster squid refused to let go of it's meal as it took the fishermen over 2 hours to bring onto the boat.
This colossal squid is currently on display at a national museum in
New Zealand.
Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni Scientific
Name
It's the largest known invertebrate in the world as scientists estimate these squids to grow up to 46 feet in length.
They have 3 hearts, bleed blue blood and have the largest eyes of any living creature in the world.
This deep sea monster has 8 different sized arms and 2 tentacles like most squid, however, they are the only species with rotating hooks which are used to grab and hold onto their prey
All squid have an Ink Sac which they use to squirt into the water producing a large dark cloud to help them escape from predators
. In the case of the colossal squid, no one has ever seen what it's ink looks like, so we can't be sure how the squid uses it. Since there is no light in the deep sea, a dark ink would be useless, therefore some believe that the colossal squid may produce a luminescent colored ink.
Because they live deep with in the ocean depths in freezing
Antarctic waters and only a few have ever been caught,
no one truly knows just how large this squid actually grows as there is still a lot to learn about this mysterious deep sea creature.
Colossal Squid illustration at (1:30) was made by Citron Citron /
CC-BY-SA-3.0 on wikipedia.
Sony's
Action Cam channel
http://bit.ly/1iAc5Zy
Learn more about the Colossal Squid squid.tepapa.govt.nz/anatomy
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- published: 27 Jun 2014
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