Giant squid: The giant squid is massive and when

The giant squid is massive and when full grown can be at least 33 feet (10 meters) long. These mysterious eight-armed creatures are rarely seen by humans. Most of what we know about them comes from finding them washed up on beaches. The largest of these hard-to-find giants ever found measured 59 feet (18 meters) in length and weighed nearly a ton (900 kilograms). Giant squid , along with their cousin, the colossal squid , have beach-ball size eyes! Their eyes are the largest eyes in the animal ... Giant squid have small fins at the rear of their mantles used for locomotion. Like other cephalopods, they move through jet propulsion—by pulling water into the mantle cavity, and pushing it through the siphon, in gentle, rhythmic pulses. The giant squid is widespread across all oceans, particularly in the North and South Atlantic, and southwestern Pacific ocean. Like all squid , a giant squid has a mantle (torso), eight arms, and two longer tentacles. The giant squid is one of the largest invertebrates on earth. Despite this, it remained undocumented other than from remains inside the stomachs of the largest predator on earth: the sperm whale. In 2013, footage of a live animal was finally captured, and scientists are slowly ...