super size squid

The giant squid camera shy until recently no one had ever seen this creature alive scientists he'd been able to study  only  a few body parts washed up on shore hauled in by fishers or found in the stomach of a whale. But in 2006 japans  scientists were able to catch a giant squid. The  squid was about 24 feet long. untortunately  in died soon after the scientists brought  it to the surface . Gint squid are  the largest invertebrates  in the world (invertebrates are animals without backbones ) They average about 33 feet in length and weigh about  440 pounds one was 59 feet long and weighed nearly 2,000 pounds     giant squid eye are about 10 inches across makeing  them the biggest peepers in the animal kingdom. Their eye are larger than a human head large eye allow the giant squid to see in the dim ligh The t of the ocean depths.  a giant squid once attacked a submarine in a science fiction novel that is Twinty  thousand leagues under the sea was  written by jules verne in 1869. In one scene in the novel a  submarine  named the Nautilus runs into a giant squid. The sea monster attacks sailors and the sub but it is fought off by the crewmenbers  and their captain Nemo. a giant  squid has a sharp beak like mother  it eats fish shrimp other squid and sometime even whale like other squid  the giant version has eight arms plus tow longer tentacles that are used to bring food to the mouth the arms and tentacle lined with suckers cups that can grab and hold onto prey. The colossal squid might  be larger than the giant squid  only a few have ever been found but scientists estimate in  can grow as long as 46 feet with a wider heavier  body than the  giant squid.