The day before yesterday, on a beach in Fukui Prefecture, Japan, a 3-meter-long king squid was found, which was washed ashore by the waves, and in the past, squid was washed off the coast of various parts of Japan. But this time the difference is that in the past, it was the carcass of the squid, and this time the squid miraculously survived.
According to Japan's Kyodo News Agency, this squid king was found on the Hirohisa Coast of Kohama City, Fukui Prefecture on the 20th, according to witnesses, when there were undulating and moving creatures on the beach that were washed by the waves, and on closer inspection, it was actually a living squid king.
According to the first person to discover the king squid, the situation at that time "seemed to be something moving, trying to say what it was, and it turned out to be a squid.". As soon as the news of the discovery of the squid king on the shore was announced, many people came to see the hilarity: "I am really excited. Everyone says there is a big squid, which is very happy for all the residents of the beach" and "This squid is really super life".
It is estimated that the king squid washed ashore weighs 80 kilograms and is 3.35 meters long. Usually living in the deep sea of 500 to 1,000 meters, the King Squid is known as the world's largest invertebrate, and it is quite rare that the King Squid can be washed ashore alive, and this is the second time since 2022 that Fukui Prefecture has seen squid washed ashore.
However, some seismologists believe that the floating surface of deep-sea organisms is often related to earthquakes. According to the Sankei Shimbun, on February 13, 2016, a 3-meter-long squid king carcass was found off the coast of Akita Prefecture, and a magnitude 3 earthquake occurred the next day. As for the live squid king discovered this time, it will be exhibited at the Echizen Matsushima Aquarium in Sakai City for public visits.