Last week, a rare giant squid on a coast of South Africa was strangely washed ashore, this white deep-sea monster is 3.5 meters long, and the suction cup is full of sharp teeth, which frightens many tourists who play by the sea and attracts many people to find out.
According to comprehensive foreign media reports, the giant squid washed up on the coast in South Africa is amazingly large, and it is also one of the most elusive deep-sea creatures in the world, and it is generally difficult to see it on the seashore, and even researchers did not see the living deep-sea giant squid for the first time until 2001.
Tourists on the beach were surprised to see this giant squid, some of them fled in fright, but many people were attracted by it and surrounded by it to watch the giant beast. A 44-year-old woman in the area immediately took her wild animal-obsessed son to the beach to find out.
The woman said that I had never seen anything like this, and what impressed me most about this squid was that they actually had sharp teeth inside their tentacle suckers, which was really surprising. Unfortunately, the giant squid died when it was washed ashore, and I guess the big squid died after being hit by the ship's propeller.
Wildlife officials from the Cape of Good Hope for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said that because some fishermen cut the squid's flesh and vital organs immediately after it washed ashore, these parts could have given us an idea of its age, diet and the cause of death, but he can only salvage some tissue samples for the museum, and fortunately the woman took a few photos in time.
Foreign media speculate that although this 2-meter-long giant squid is quite large for humans, compared with other giant squid, it should only be a squid that has not yet fully grown up and is only 2 years old, because in general, the adult giant squid can reach 13 meters in length, almost 6 times the size of this giant squid.