Not to mention all kinds of whales, they are the largest animals in the world. Even squid is surprisingly big.
At present, scientists have discovered two kinds of cephalopods, both of which are famous for their huge size. One is the king squid, the other is the king squid. Among them, the king squid is described as a Nordic legend, which is attributed to Clegan.
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, common in Antarctica, and mainly live in the deep sea of 2000 meters.
According to the description, their body length is usually between 5- 15 meters, and brachiopods alone are 8 meters long, far exceeding land creatures. However, they are not heavy, and the maximum weight is less than half a ton.
The king squid is similar to the king squid and 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 online description, we can see that the giant squid can grow to 8- 10 meters when it is young, and it will reach 18-20 meters in adulthood, which is very scary.
However, the following problem is: I went to primary school, and my knowledge of Chinese and mathematics is not deep. But according to my primary school education, 18-20m seems to be bigger than 5- 15m. Why is the Squid King described as the second largest vertebrate and the Squid King Physalis the largest?
In fact, we are not sure whether these data are accurate. Many people like to add their own emotional color when describing a thing. In other words, it will always be exaggerated, which will lead to the bigger and bigger data.
At the same time, squid, as a cephalopod, has one thing in common: its body will swell 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 looked at the data carefully and found that these data are actually not reliable. "
As a matter of fact, the squid with definite records is only about 12 meters long-well, this size is huge enough, but it is much smaller than the legend. When it comes to pickled cabbage, it is even smaller, and they generally do not exceed 10 meter.
There are even rumors that giant squid as long as 80 meters may live in the sea. What happened?
It turns out that someone once found a sucker scar with a diameter of 40 cm on the 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 meters of squid, the sperm whale would have been eaten long ago.
In fact, it is also true that squid attacks sperm whales. However, in view of the size gap, generally speaking, it is the adult squid that attacks the juvenile sperm whale, which is evenly matched.
The scar on this sperm whale is probably left by it 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, it is not sure how big the king squid and the king squid are. After all, we know 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 found creatures bigger than them, maybe!