GIANT SQUID!

This week I have decided to do my blog post on the giant squid. The giant squid remains a mystery, and a large one at that, to scients besides being the biggest invertibrate on earth. The largest of these elusive squids found measured 59 feet and weighed nearly a ton!

However, their deep-sea habitat has made them difficult to study, and almost everything scientists know about them is from carcasses that have washed up on beaches or been hauled in by fishermen. Lately, though, the scientists have come in to better luck. In 2004 researchers in Japan took the first images ever of a live giant squid. And in 2006, scientists with Japan's National Science Museum caught and brought to the surface a live 24-foot female giant squid. but even with these small feets the score stands humans 2 and squids with a number so high you would likely need scientific notation to write it.

Giant squid, along with their cousin, the colossal squid, have the largest eyes in the animal kingdom, measuring about 10 inches in diameter about the size of a beach ball. This massive eye allow them to see things in the inhospitible of which they live. Like other squid species, they have eight arms and two longer tentacles that help them bring food to their mouths. Their diet likely consists of fish, shrimp, and other squid, and some suggest they might even attack and eat small whales. they swim with not only their tiny tenticals but also with a propultion system inside their bodys buy first drawing water in and then forcing it back out. marine experts can not yet conclude where the in vertibrates live yet because they have been found in all on the worlds oceans.