The journey of a giant squid in the Japanese port was filmed



    For a long time, it was believed that the stories of giant cephalopods were inventions of sailors who like to embellish their stories. If you remember, in the Middle Ages even painted pictures where giant octopuses turned ships, ate sailors, even attacked the coastal zones of cities. This, of course, is a fairy tale.

    Already in the 20th century it became clear that giant cephalopods still exist - these are squids. Sailors and then scientists were able to capture the photos of these creatures. In addition, the wounds on the skin of the caught sperm whales made it possible to judge the size of some specimens of squid - they are simply huge. With the proliferation of mobile devices with cameras, the number of videos and photos with giant inhabitants of the oceans has increased significantly. One such video was recently posted on the Web - the operator managed to capture the journey of a huge squid through a Japanese port in Toyama.



    The video was shot recently - December 24th. The length of the cephalopod was more than 4 meters. Twitter suggested that this creature belongs to the species Architeuthis , whose representatives reach a size of 12-15 meters. It is a genus of deep-sea squid that makes up the independent family Architeuthidae. Giant squid can grow to enormous sizes (see. Deep-sea gigantism), according to modern data, the maximum length from the end of the fins to the tips of the tentacle tentacles is about 16.5 m. Thus, it is one of the largest invertebrate animals. The length of the mantle is about 2.5 m, for females it is slightly longer than for males, the length of the squid, excluding hunting tentacles, is about 5 m. Messages about squids with a length of 20 m and more are not confirmed by scientific data.



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    It is interesting that for the first time descriptions of a giant squid were made by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle and the Roman historian Pliny the Elder. Aristotle separated giant squids 5 cubits long (teuthus) from ordinary (teuthis). Pliny the Elder described giant squids in Natural History, with a barrel-sized head, nine-meter tentacles and a weight of 320 kg.

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