Squid belongs to the invertebrate mollusk. In marine life, the squid's swimming speed is the fastest, it is very fast, and general fish swim by fins different, it is by the belly of the funnel tube spraying water reaction force to fly forward, the ability to spray like a rocket launch, which can make the squid from the depths of the sea to jump up, jumping out of the water as high as 7 meters to 10 meters. The body of the squid is like a cannonball, able to fly about 50 meters in the air. The speed of the squid swimming in the sea water can usually reach more than 15 meters per second, and the maximum speed can reach 150 kilometers per hour. The sailfish, which is known as the champion of swimming speed among fishes, has a speed of only 110 kilometers per hour, so it has to be inferior. The smallest of all squid in the world is the baby squid. Its length is no more than 1.5 centimeters, about the size of a peanut, and its weight is only 0.1 grams. This ultra-small squid lives in the shallow waters of the Sea of Japan and looks very similar to a normal squid, except that it has an extra suction cup on its back, so that it can attach itself to the water plants and not be washed away by the sea. Usually it rests on the water grass, once it finds the prey, it will suddenly attack, after eating enough, it returns to the water grass and rest quietly, waiting for the next prey. The largest squid in the world is the king squid. They generally live in the depths of the ocean, resting in the deep sea during the day and swimming to the shallow sea at night to feed. In the kingdom of squid, there is also a very small fluorescent squid. It is a creature that glows, with three luminaries on its ventral surface and one around the eyes in some cases. The light it emits can illuminate up to 30 centimeters away. When it encounters a natural enemy, it shoots out a strong light that scares the enemy into fleeing.
The giant king squid lives in the deep sea. There are legends of sirens in the seafaring civilizations of many countries. They all look very similar to the squid. Modern people also have some fragmented knowledge of the king squid. Some seafarers in the sea night watch, once saw the squid up to 20 meters long tentacles in the deck sweeping, those who can be caught objects are rolled into the sea, the next day, people found by several rows of teeth bite through the barrels hanging on the side of the ship. During World War II, the U.S. Navy, a thousands of tons of destroyer in the night voyage suddenly found that the speed slowed down, but could not find any fault, when people sent it into the dockyard for repairs, only to find that its propeller has been a sharp teeth bite through dozens of holes. Until deep-sea diving developed today, people have really photographed the real picture of the king squid.
Since ancient times, stories of terrifying sea monsters have circulated among fishermen and sailors around the world. In the legends, these sea monsters were often huge and strangely shaped, and even had seven or nine heads. One of the most famous is the "Norwegian Sea Monster" described by Bishop Pang Bidan of Bergen in the year 752 in the Norwegian Museum, which is said to be "about a mile and a half around the back of its body, or should I say the upper part of its body, as if it were an island.
Over the nineteenth century, with the development of modern zoology, the overly outlandish sea-monster legends faded away. But there are still some reports that deserve our attention:
On November 0, 1861, the French warship Alerton sailed from Cadiz, Spain, to the island of Tenerife on the way, encountered a 5-6-meter-long, two-meter-long tentacles of the sea monster. Captain Siegel later wrote: I think it was the great octopus which has caused so much controversy and which many people believe to be fictitious." Hierl and the crew harpooned it and put a rope around its tail. But the monster frantically flailed its horns and broke the harpoon and fled. Only a piece of flesh weighing about 40 pounds was left on the rope.
On Nov. 2, 1978, three fishermen in Newfoundland, Canada, found a huge marine animal stranded on the beach by the low tide, which the fishermen said was 7 meters long, with some horned hands up to 11 meters or more, suckers on the horned hands up to 10 centimeters in diameter, and eyes as big as the size of a face. The fishermen hooked it with a hook and the monster struggled for a while before dying soon after.
Belgian zoologist Heifelmans collected and analyzed reports of sea monster sightings from 1639 to 1966, more than three hundred years **** five hundred and eighty-seven cases, excluding those that may have been misread, deliberately deceived, and written in an unclear manner, and considered credible three hundred and fifty-eight cases.
He entered all the details of these reports into a computer to analyze them and came up with nine different kinds of sea. Though the reports were not free of exaggeration, at least one of the sea giants, previously thought "impossible", was confirmed: the giant king squid.
In the 1870s, the remains of the giant king squid washed ashore on the Canadian coast on several occasions, at least once alive, and with the help of these entities, some things were finally learned about the giant king squid.
The king squid lives in the deep waters of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, with a body length of about 20 meters and a weight of about 2-3 tons, making it the largest invertebrate in the world. Its temperament is extremely fierce, to fish and invertebrates for food, and can fight with giant whales. There are often reports of king squid fighting with sperm whales abroad. According to records, once people witnessed a king squid with its thick horns and suckers dead entangled in the sperm whale, the sperm whale put all its strength to bite the king squid's tail. The two giants of the sea rolled violently, stirring up the turbulent waves, and then both sank to the bottom of the water without knowing what happened. Most of these fights are won by the sperm whale, but there have been cases where the king squid has clamped its tentacles around the whale's nostrils, suffocating it to death.
So it seems safe to assume that the sea monsters that people encountered in 1861 and 1878, as quoted earlier, were giant king squid. How big can the largest king squid be? That's a tough question to answer. A king squid of 17.07 meters in length was measured to have a sucker on its horns with a diameter of 9.5 centimeters. But from captured sperm whales, sucker scars measuring more than 40 centimeters in diameter have been found.
This suggests that the king squid that fought with the whale may have been 60 meters long or more. If there really is such a big king squid, then it is not far from the legendary Norwegian sea monster.