Squid is a common marine life, it will escape through the way of "inkjet", so also known as cuttlefish, the current human beings have found more than 300 kinds of squid species, and to talk about the world's largest squid, it must be the squid "Giant" known as the king squid, many terrible sea monster legends are related to it, the following for everyone to introduce in detail.
King squid, it is the largest and heaviest of all the squid, the general king squid body length is between 6-12 meters, and the largest king squid found so far, its body length reached 20 meters, the weight of 1 ton, such a huge body, making it become a "giant" in the squid.
The king squid feeds mainly on other small squid or fish, living in a water layer of 200-400 meters, and is distributed worldwide. They are also not very aggressive, so they have become predators of other marine organisms. In 1978, a sperm whale was found in the jiaonan waters of Shandong Province, China, with a large suction cup mark under its head, the largest diameter of the suction cup reached about 40 mm, and most of the whale meat in the middle of the mark was sucked out, which was later identified as the result of a fierce battle between the king squid and the sperm whale.
The most recent discovery was in February 2019, when a local female resident of Hamada City, Japan, found the body of a female king squid, which was 3.4 meters long, weighed 135 kilograms, and was 3.4 meters long, and the two tentacles that were hunted for food were gone, and if they were still there, the total length could reach 6-7 meters.
Since ancient times, there have been many legends about the king squid, the earliest suspected record of the king squid is in 1752 Pombidan's "Norwegian Naturalism", according to the book: in the waters near Norway found a giant "sea monster", its size is like a small island, the tentacles of the "monster" are as long as the mast of the ship; and in 1861, the French warship "Arriton" encountered a sea monster of only 6 meters long on the way from Gadis in Spain to Tennerif Island. These are considered to be king squid.