The strange world of giant squid

Monsters of the deep , Titans of long tentacles moving in dark waters to hunt, to catch their prey with that characteristic peak and crush their victims.Giant squids that have long populated the pages of our books like that terrible copy that Julio Verne presented us in «20,000 leagues of underwater travel», or that creature with long tentacles that, according to Homer, I stalked the ships and I get to devour six companions of the boat that led Ulysses.

A lot of fantasy has been woven around the life of these silent beings of the chasms , and that is very little what we know of their lives.Several devices have been designed to reach these sea depths to find out how they live, how they hunt and how they mate, but unfortunately there are still very few advances made.The data we have is almost always post they die, when for whatever reason they appear entangled in our networks with a small haul of life, or when ascend to the surface after they have died.

All this makes us think that perhaps, we know more about the universe and the stars than that strange world of the deep sea where the giant squid lives...

The mighty Kraken

They are aggressive, intelligent and authentic wizards of the camouflage .The largest specimen that has been known reaches just over a ton of weight and 22 meters of Length: A spectacular creature that has eight tentacles with suckers, some more than talkable weapons to easily catch its prey.

His life goes on in the darkness of the depths, between five hundred and four mi l meters deep from our oceans and seas, it is from there that it usually emerges from time to time to amaze and terrify us.The Norwegians called it Kraken , and that is the most common name with which he knows him, but science catalogs him years ago as Architeuthis dux , a giant cephalopod with countless legends around his impressive presence.

The strange world of giant squid

It was in the 19th century that the first specimen was caught.in Spain, on the Island of Tenerife. The crew of a French warship saw an orange shadow loitering around the ship, something strange that the sailors did not hesitate to harpoon and hunt.Perhaps it is an act Reflecting to kill everything that is feared...Anyway, those men must have been quite surprised to catch this gigantic being of 8 meters s long, and spectacular head, so much so that they did not hesitate to expose it in the port of Santa Cruz to the horror of the curious and sailors.Later, the French Academy of Sciences recorded the discovery and began to be part of the research of the famous naturalists Henri Crosse and Paul Fischer on the «cephalopodes gigantic»

The strange world of giant squid

The life of giant squid

The information that so far has been obtained is partly due to research such as those developed in Asturias (Spain), towns such as Luarca, where they managed to build a unique museum in the world dedicated exclusively to giant squid. What we know of these fascinating beings so far can be gathered in these phrases:

They are criatur They are very lonely.
They do not stop growing since they are born.
They are very aggressive and violent, in fact they are currently obtaining data that they could practice cannibalism with their own species.
His body is articulated with a shell under his skin, a substance that gives him stiffness and buoyancy.
His breathing is by gills.
They are some incredible swimmers can accelerate or stop in a second thanks to a tube-shaped muscle that acts as a siphon while giving direction and direction to the animal.
His eyes can see in the dark and have the size of a pumpkin.
They have a very powerful beak with which they crush their victims
Giant squids feed on fish, sharks, rays, prawns, crabs and sometimes their own companions.
They are camouflage artists.
They have small capsules of ammonia and an ink sack.
Their maximum predator is the sperm whale.
They usually live between 3 and 5 five years.

The strange world of giant squid

Image: Richard Saxon

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