"It's safer to encounter it in the ocean than to encounter a great white shark."
The monster that makes fishermen talk about is the Humboldt squid, also known as the American giant red squid. The Peruvian Cold Current (formerly known as the Humboldt Cold Current) in the eastern Pacific Ocean is distributed over a large area of the sea from California in the north to Tierra del Fuego in the south.

It looks like an alien creature, mysterious and terrifying. In many myths and legends, humboldt squid in the deep sea occupy an important place.
It can reach a length of 1.75 meters and weighs up to 50 kg. The bite force is up to 510 kg. Swimming speeds can reach 24 km / h.
Humboldt squid is covered with flesh-colored mantle membranes on the outside of the body, and squid are close relatives! No wonder that the first time he mentioned it to his friends around him, the listener did not show a look of fear, and the harrah was about to flow to the ground. A few foodies cheekily asked, can I eat it? Come, let you eat and try...
It has eight tentacles and two long, long tentacles that can be extended, and adult male Humboldt squid tentacles have 1200 suction cups, each with a pulling force of 100 grams. Each suction cup has 21 to 36 pointed teeth, 25,000 to 36,000 teeth throughout the body, and are needle-shaped poisonous teeth that can paralyze or tear the target directly. Once the prey is caught and sent to the mouth to bite, it is absolutely impossible to escape.
During the day it hides in the sea, and when night falls, it uses a membrane to make a paddle to swim in search of prey.
Experts who study Humboldt squid say that the hard mouth can bite through Kevlar's bulletproof material (5 times stronger than the same quality of steel), have barbs on the tongue, and can quickly bite and swallow a sailfish that is more than 2 meters long and weighs dozens of kilograms. The sailfish is one of the fastest fish in short distances, with a speed of 90 kilometers per hour and a short distance of about 110 kilometers per hour.
The hard parrot-beaked beak bites through Kevlar's bulletproof material, hard fishbone
Image from Discovery
Humboldt squid will flexibly use all the antennae when feeding, usually 10 tentacles will form a cone to quickly approach the target, when the distance reaches the attack range, it will open 8 non-stop swimming tentacles to form a enveloping trend on the target, and the remaining two tentacles with sharp teeth will continue to elongate. After two long tentacles catch the prey, they quickly pull it into the mouth of the parrot's beak. It can easily tear apart human muscles, and the entire predation process is only a few seconds.
Humboldt squid can swim forward and backwards, so they can attack their prey from any direction.
Many of the number one horror characters in science fiction films have more or less the appearance and habits of Humboldt squid. If you know enough about it, you'll feel that its ferocious hunting ability completely exceeds the horror effects your character needs.
The Humboldt squid, which has a sharp weapon, can quickly change color, changing from gray to brownish red in just a few seconds, and is called "Red Devil", or "Deep Sea Red Devil".
Research conducted by scientists at the Stanford Hopkins Marine Station in California found that Humboldt squid hunt cooperatively, and once the hunt is over, the collaboration ends. And they seem to have a complex way of communicating between them, during which the body of the squid changes color, and the flash emitted changes from red to white and then back to red. And this color change order is not fixed.
Researchers say the squid is not bioluminescent, but muscle fibers, because of their ability to shine.
"Using neuromuscular pigment cells to change the color of the outer skin is a special ability that all cephalopods have," the researchers wrote in the report, "These tiny organs are made up of elastic pigment sacs that can be retracted, so when a circle of radial muscles is in motion, the observer can observe the resulting discoloration process." ”
They usually live under water of 200---700 meters, and in case of danger, they will spew "ink" and take advantage of the opportunity to escape.
Diving in the deep sea protects against Humboldt squid attacks. Some divers have been robbed of face mirrors, cylinder control valves, air hoses, etc. Once snatched away by them, it is very dangerous.
Marine biologists have found that the Humboldt squid is different from the shark, it will not give up, it will attack wholeheartedly, unlike the shark will go around in circles to assess the situation, because the shark does not want to be hurt, but the squid is different and will go forward.
The fearless Humboldt squid is simply the deep-sea version of the strongest flat-headed honey badger on the surface.