# Colossal squid found in Antarctic **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 2, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colossal-squid-found-in-antarctic/166070 "2003-04-02T22:45:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colossal-squid-found-in-antarctic/166070/1 "2003-04-02T22:45:15Z")
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2910849.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2910849.stm) And it’s significantly larger than the Giant Squid! > [@](#): > > “It’s been known since 1925, but no one really paid any attention to it,” Dr O’Shea said. “Now we can say that it attains a size larger than the giant squid. Giant squid is no longer the largest squid that’s out there. We’ve got something that’s even larger, and not just larger but an order of magnitude meaner.” Coolest. Animal. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colossal-squid-found-in-antarctic/166070/2 "2003-04-02T22:49:56Z")
Extremely interesting article. Thank you for sharing. ---
**Author:** ![Mariachi\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@Mariachi\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mariachi_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colossal-squid-found-in-antarctic/166070/3 "2003-04-02T22:52:20Z")
I so want someone to get footage of a Giant Squid or this Colassal Squid alive…these things are so amazing! ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colossal-squid-found-in-antarctic/166070/4 "2003-04-02T22:53:50Z")
Well it looks like calamari is on the menu tonight! 🙂 That is a big, big ass squid. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colossal-squid-found-in-antarctic/166070/5 "2003-04-02T23:00:46Z")
> [@](#): > > I so want someone to get footage of a Giant Squid or this Colassal Squid alive My goal in life is to take a submersible down and document a living Giant Squid. Some would say that doing webby stuff and various writing/PR for a marketing company isn’t the most likely route to take to achieve said goal, but I don’t let the naysayers get me down. _Architeuthis_ ho! Or _Mesonychoteuthis_, though it’s harder to say! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colossal-squid-found-in-antarctic/166070/6 "2003-04-02T23:10:56Z")
And people thought [Peter Benchley](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679403558/qid=1049325127/sr=1-13/ref=sr_1_13/002-8157964-6409654?v=glance&s=books) was being ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colossal-squid-found-in-antarctic/166070/7 "2003-04-02T23:11:16Z")
Thanks, Beadalin. It’s always wonderful to see a completely new species on this mundane Earth, especially one so huge and flambuoyant. The scientist is right: I would not want to meet this sucker in the water. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colossal-squid-found-in-antarctic/166070/8 "2003-04-02T23:19:25Z")
_Good grief!_ I’d hate to see that while diving or swimming around. But I do like calamari. Thanks for sharing this. I’ll post any nightmares about it. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colossal-squid-found-in-antarctic/166070/9 "2003-04-02T23:24:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by alice\_in\_wonderland \* > \*\*Well it looks like calamari is on the menu tonight! 🙂 > > That is a big, big ass squid. \*\* Heh, heh, heh. Reminds me of a buddy of mine. We went to an Italian restaurant one night, and he said he wasn’t going to eat any “wierd stuff” like octopus. He ordered calamari, and stated that he didn’t really know what it was, but he loved it. No, I didn’t tell him what he was eating. Yes, I’ve sent him the link in the OP with mention of dinner. (I know, I’m evil.) Personally, I want to see footage of one of those suckers attacking a ship! We’ve had all kinds of drawings about it, bad movies about it, but no genuine movies about it! (Doesn’t have to be any people on the ship. I’d be happy just seeing one of those squids wrapping itself around the ship and trying to crack it open.) ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colossal-squid-found-in-antarctic/166070/10 "2003-04-02T23:25:02Z")
Paging **Libertarian** … ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colossal-squid-found-in-antarctic/166070/11 "2003-04-02T23:31:07Z")
> [@](#): > > Personally, I want to see footage of one of those suckers attacking a ship! Me too! It [happened in real life](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2661691.stm) not to long ago (yes, I am a Giant Squid junkie). From that story: > [@](#): > > “I saw a tentacle through a porthole,” Olivier de Kersauson said from his boat. “It was thicker than my leg and it was really pulling the boat hard.” I love that this happened to a group taking part in the Jules Verne Trophy. Heh heh heh. ---
**Author:** ![Ferris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ferris/32/11573_2.png) [@Ferris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferris)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colossal-squid-found-in-antarctic/166070/12 "2003-04-02T23:44:39Z")
[Another link](http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3350503&thesection=news&thesubsection=general). I watched this on the news last night. Those swivelling claws are an amazing adaptation. I remember a thread a few months ago in which people were debating the eventual winner in a fight between a Kodiak bear and a Great White shark. _This_ would probably happily take them both on at once with one tentacle tied behind its back. My respect for sperm whales just got a whole lot bigger. [sperm whale] “D’ya see this scar…?” [/sperm whale] ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2003, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colossal-squid-found-in-antarctic/166070/13 "2003-04-02T23:56:05Z")
And people wonder why I don’t swim in lakes and oceans. That was a cool article, but I’d rather not meet one of those beasties any time soon. Unless it’s battered and fried. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colossal-squid-found-in-antarctic/166070/14 "2003-04-03T00:00:39Z")
If this exists, can Godzilla be far behind? ---
**Author:** ![Marconi\_Schmeese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Marconi\_Schmeese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_Schmeese)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colossal-squid-found-in-antarctic/166070/15 "2003-04-03T00:12:31Z")
Holy crap! And it’s a “juvenile”. :eek: Hate to meet that thing’s Daddy! ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colossal-squid-found-in-antarctic/166070/16 "2003-04-03T00:25:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pugluvr \* > **flambuoyant.** Ouch. 😃 Big damn thing. Paging Kirk Douglas! ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colossal-squid-found-in-antarctic/166070/17 "2003-04-03T00:46:11Z")
May I please ask a stupid question? What do they _eat_? Cephalopods, like squid, octopi, and cuttlefish, have very short lifespans. They go five to six years, maximum, (some only last days) and they have to grow to full size in that period. That takes a lot of food. What is this monster eating? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colossal-squid-found-in-antarctic/166070/18 "2003-04-03T00:51:10Z")
So are the lighthouses safe or not? **Libertarian!?!** I gots ta know. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colossal-squid-found-in-antarctic/166070/19 "2003-04-03T00:55:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Exgineer \* > \*\*May I please ask a stupid question? > > What do they _eat_? > > Cephalopods, like squid, octopi, and cuttlefish, have very short lifespans. They go five to six years, maximum, (some only last days) and they have to grow to full size in that period. That takes a lot of food. > > What is this monster eating? \*\* Anything it wants. ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colossal-squid-found-in-antarctic/166070/20 "2003-04-03T01:12:10Z")
This is too cool. Thanks heaps for the link 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colossal-squid-found-in-antarctic/166070.md?page=2)