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This list of giant squid specimens and sightings is a comprehensive timeline of recorded human encounters with members of the genus Architeuthis, popularly known as giant squid. It includes animals that were caught by fishermen, found washed ashore, recovered (in whole or in part) from sperm whales and other predatory species, as well as those ...
This list of giant squid specimens and sightings from the 21st century is a comprehensive timeline of recent human encounters with members of the genus Architeuthis, popularly known as giant squid. It includes animals that were caught by fishermen, found washed ashore, recovered (in whole or in part) from sperm whales and other predatory ...
The giant squid is widespread, occurring in all of the world's oceans. It is usually found near continental and island slopes from the North Atlantic Ocean, especially Newfoundland, Norway, the northern British Isles, Spain and the oceanic islands of the Azores and Madeira, to the South Atlantic around southern Africa, the North Pacific around Japan, and the southwestern Pacific around New ...
Besides kraken, the monster went under a variety of names early on, the most common after kraken being horven ("the horv"). [16] Icelandic philologist Finnur Jónsson explained this name in 1920 as an alternative form of harv (lit. ' harrow ') and conjectured that this name was suggested by the inkfish's action of seeming to plow the sea. [15]
A study in Prydz Bay region of Antarctica found squid remains in a female colossal squid's stomach, suggesting the possibility of cannibalism within this species. [36] Studies measuring the δ15N content of the chitinous beaks of cephalopods to determine trophic ecology levels have demonstrated that the colossal squid is a top predator that is ...
Giant squid caught by hook and line off Greymouth, New Zealand, on 16 August 2018 (#657 on this list). It now forms part of the collections of the Auckland War Memorial Museum . This list of giant squid specimens and sightings since 2015 is a timeline of recent human encounters with members of the genus Architeuthis , popularly known as giant ...
It was found that giant squid are preyed upon not only by sperm whales but by a wide range of other animals, including albacore , lancetfish (#149 and 164; see #48 for 19th century record), swordfish , blue sharks (#215 and 375), Portuguese dogfish , shortfin mako sharks (#205 and 431), sleeper sharks (#396, 405, 430, 432, and 433), and ...
None of them can tolerate fresh water, but the brief squid, Lolliguncula brevis, found in Chesapeake Bay, is a notable partial exception in that it tolerates brackish water. [9] Cephalopods are thought to be unable to live in fresh water due to multiple biochemical constraints, and in their >400 million year existence have never ventured into ...