Giant squid “monsters” continuously found on the coasts of Australia, Japan, and Spain are making the whole world confused.
Japan’s NHK reported that on February 25, a fisherman named Tetsuo Okamoto caught a giant squid with a length of about 4.14 meters; weighs about 200kg and has lost its two longest tentacles.
The squid was caught at a depth of 8m in the waters of Hyogo province, causing concern among Japanese people because they thought it was a bad omen, predicting an impending natural disaster.
Previously, at the end of January 2014, the Telegraph reported that Japanese fishermen caught a squid 3.3m long and weighing nearly 100kg that was still alive when brought to shore.
Recently, giant squid have continuously appeared in coastal areas of many countries. A giant squid over 6m long in the southeastern waters of Australia.
A giant squid over 6m long in the southeastern waters of Australia.
A giant squid is 3.5m long (the head alone is 1.4m long) and weighs 50kg at the bottom of the North Pacific Ocean 640m deep 1,000km south of Tokyo.
This giant squid is considered one of the most mysterious creatures in the ocean, and for many years has consumed countless efforts by researchers at the National Science Museum of Japan.
Giant squid on Tasmanian beach, Australia
A giant squid weighing 495kg was found dead in the ice in the Antarctic Sea. The process of defrosting this squid takes more than a year to complete
Image of giant squid through ancient paintings
Giant squids have always been mysterious animals because they live very deep at the bottom of the ocean. It was not until 2004 that people first saw them with their own eyes
The image of a giant squid measuring 160 feet long appearing on the Spanish coast shocked the world.
But actually it’s just a product of photoshop. That giant squid was actually only 9m long and weighed about 180kg and washed ashore on the Spanish coast on October 1, 2013.
Giant squid often compete with whales, squid is also the favorite food of this world’s largest animal.
Images of extremely rare giant squid were captured deep in the Pacific Ocean
Scientists discovered that all giant squids in the world are essentially identical, despite their different appearances.
This animal usually grows to a length of 18 meters and is a carnivore, often hunting fish and other squid
Much of what scientists now know about giant squids comes from dead squids that wash up on beaches or in the stomachs of whales.
Giant squid is in the Top 10 ‘sea devils’
The mystery of this animal is further increased by the fishermen’s legend of a giant animal with tentacles that reach the bottom of the ocean.