Not to mention all kinds of whales, they are the largest animals in the world. Even the squid is surprisingly large.
At present, scientists have found two kinds of cephalopods, both of which are famous for their huge size. One is the king squid, and the other is the king squid. Among them, the king squid is described as the northern European legend, blaming Clegan.
So, how big are these two cephalopods? Are they really sea monsters?
Let's introduce them one by one, according to the data of an encyclopedia:
King Physalis, also known as giant squid, is the largest invertebrate in the world today. They usually live in the open sea and are common in Antarctica, mainly living in the deep sea of 2000 meters.
According to the description, their body length is usually between 5- 15 meters, and their brachiopods alone are 8 meters long, far exceeding that of terrestrial creatures. However, they are not heavy, and the maximum weight is less than half a ton.
The king squid, similar to the king squid, also lives in the deep sea, but the difference is that they mainly live in the North Atlantic and the North Pacific in the northern hemisphere.
From the description on the Internet, we can see that the giant squid can grow to 8- 10 meters in its infancy, and even reach 18-20 meters in its adulthood, which is very scary.
However, the following question is: I went to primary school, and I don't have a deep knowledge of Chinese and mathematics, but according to my primary school education,18-20m seems to be larger than 5-15m. Why is the squid King described as the second largest vertebrate, while the squid King Sour Sauce is the largest?
In fact, we are not sure whether these data are accurate or not. When describing a thing, many people like to add their own emotional color. In other words, it will always be exaggerated, which will lead to the data being spread bigger and bigger.
At the same time, squid, as a cephalopod, has one thing in common: its body will expand after death. Therefore, the squid caught by humans (all dead) are bigger than when they lived in the ocean, and may even be much bigger.
Craig McClane, assistant director of the National Center for Evolutionary Synthesis in North Carolina, once said: "People often say that the size of squid can grow to 60 feet (20 meters), which is amazing. But I carefully looked at the data and found that these data are actually unreliable. "
In fact, at present, there is an exact record of the king squid, which is only about 12 meters in length-well, this size is huge enough, but it is much smaller than the legend. When it comes to King Sauerkraut, it's smaller, and they usually don't exceed 10 meter.
There are even rumors that giant squid as long as 80 meters may live in the sea. What's the matter?
It turns out that someone once found a sucker scar with a diameter of 40 cm on a sperm whale. According to the ratio of sucker to body of common squid, it can be inferred that the creator of this scar is 80 meters in size.
Is this data reliable?
Obviously, this is not very reliable. If there were 80-meter squid, the sperm whale would have been eaten long ago.
In fact, the squid attack on sperm whales is also true. However, in view of the size gap, generally speaking, it is the adult squid that attacks the juvenile sperm whale, which is considered to be evenly matched.
The scar on this sperm whale is probably left when it was young. At that time, it was attacked by adult squid, but fortunately escaped. With the growth of age and body, this scar is also increasing.
In short, the so-called 80-meter sea monster, although we have no evidence to prove that it absolutely does not exist, there is no evidence to prove that it exists. At present, we are not sure how big the king squid and the king squid are. After all, we know very little about the deep sea.
With the continuous improvement of our deep-sea exploration technology, we will know their exact shapes one day. On that day, we find creatures bigger than them, maybe!