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o'dium wrote:I'd say as big as 450kg, if not bigger.

SplishSplash wrote:okay, we need a bigger deep-fryer

SplishSplash wrote:Keith Olbermann made a good point though: How fucking rare are these things really? There's one on the news every other day.

SplishSplash wrote:Keith Olbermann made a good point though: How fucking rare are these things really? There's one on the news every other day.

R00k wrote: There are 3 classes of these things according to size.

Wikipedia wrote:Humboldt Squid are carnivores that move in schools of up to 1200 individuals. They swim at speeds of up to 15 miles per hour (24 km/h, 13 knots) propelled by water ejected through a hyponome (siphon) and by two diamond shaped fins. Their tentacles bear barbed suckers with which they grasp prey and drag it towards a mouth containing a large, sharp beak.

The beak of a Dosidicus gigas is large and very powerful. The edges are as sharp as trauma shears and are capable of gouging out an orange-sized chunk of flesh, regardless of tissue make up. I have seen a five-foot Dosidicus gigas bite through the thick bone of a tuna head, skull and all, with minimal effort removing fist-sized portions with each bite.

To hold their prey item firmly, this squid has about 2,000 suction disks; each lined with chitenous ring teeth. Chitin is a material similar to that of fingernails and that of beetle exoskeletons (A polysaccharide). These chitenous ring teeth are needle sharp and very effective. Every suction disk has up to 36 of these teeth. That means a Humboldt squid employs as many as 72,000 teeth upon its hapless victims. Prey has little chance of escaping a Humboldt squid’s deadly embrace.

o'dium wrote:I'd say as big as 450kg, if not bigger.

Humboldt Squid are carnivores that move in schools of up to 1200 individuals. They swim at speeds of up to 15 miles per hour (24 km/h, 13 knots)

Every suction disk has up to 36 of these teeth. That means a Humboldt squid employs as many as 72,000 teeth upon its hapless victims.

[xeno]Julios wrote:

o'dium wrote:I'd say as big as 450kg, if not bigger.

that sounds rather fucking light, considering this:

i would have thought at least a few tonnes

bikkeldesnikkel wrote: almost half of it is just tentacles, the one caught was about 10m and the bus is comprised of heavier stuff than squid tissue. sounds reasonable to me.

6. Our arch nemesis is the evil sperm whale. While the largest male sperm whales and giant squid grow to about the same length (18m or 60 feet), sperm whales weigh up to 52 metric tons, while giant squid weigh only one ton in comparison. This is because most of our squiddy length is made up by our tentacles. It is commonly thought that sperm whales are our predators... however, they are often found with circular sucker scars on the skin around their heads. Yeah, we bad.