Giant Squid
Architeuthis dux
Bus-sized tentacles reach through midnight water.
The giant squid is a deep-sea legend made real, with eight arms and two extra-long feeding tentacles. Its enormous eyes watch for prey and approaching sperm whales in the gloom.
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Darkness Shroud Deck
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Creature passport
- Home
- It lives in deep waters near continental and island slopes across the world's oceans.
- Favorite foods
- It grabs fishes, shrimp, and other squid with its feeding tentacles.
- Size check
- Largest recorded nearly 43 ft (13 m)—school-bus length
Tell-your-friends facts
Four wonderfully wild things
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It has eight shorter arms plus two much longer feeding tentacles.
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Rings of tiny teeth line the suckers on its tentacle clubs.
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Sperm whales carry sucker scars and sometimes have giant-squid beaks in their stomachs.
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Scientists first filmed a giant squid in its deep natural habitat in 2012.
Ocean superpower
Built to be amazing
Eyes as wide as dinner plates gather tiny flashes of light.
Junior scientist tip
What should I look for?
Count two very long tentacles beyond the eight arms and find the huge eyes.
Grown-up research links
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