How Big Do Giant (and Colossal) Squid Get? feat.Sea&Me
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Number of Species:
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Exaggerated Size:
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New Zealand Fisheries:
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Facts and Details:
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Colossal Squid Range:
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A Deep Sea December? Crazy
I really like the "how big" episodes, you don't sensationalize the animals and try to be understanding with why overestimations happen. Good stuff.
Both of these animals have fascinated me since I was a boy. Given how little we know about the deep ocean, with the amount of giant squid beaks in sperm whale stomachs; they might be the alpha predator of the deep ocean and have massive populations spread across the oceans massive depths.
I always wondered if they evolved to be inactive for large periods until their massive eyes detect food and THEN they move and attack. That life style coupled with how few deep sea expeditions humans take, and their selective locations, would factor into why we hardly ever encounter them.
same! I used to have this picture books that tells things about animals, and the giant squid was one of my favorite.
the sperm whale would the alpha predator? Largest toothed active hunter?
The fact that we say things “we rarely see it since it lives in the deep sea” where it lives at 700-1000m (2,297-3281ft), then you realize the AVERAGE depth of the ocean is 3,682m (12,080ft). That part we can’t see is and is hidden is only 1/5th to 1/4th deep.
Imagine a giant swimming pool that is on average 12 feet deep, at parts 35ft deep. It took hundreds of years to find a giant animal that lives 2-3 feet under the surface and is likely to be very abundant.
I think it’s safe to say, anything could be in that pool. To say other wise, when in reality we only really understand 1-3 inches deep. A foot is a mystery we are learning, to say other wise is pure hubris.
Thank you for producing informative and to the point documentaries on mystery animals! 🙂
Thank you so much for this collab! And great video!
Thank you for all your help! Was really interesting working on the videos together.
@@wildworld6264she’s fine bro. I hope you at least decided to shoot your shot! 👀
As someone who is literally terrified of the ocean, I love deep sea/sea creatures, especially the big ones! This is a great video! 😊
Thanks so much!
@@wildworld6264No, thank you for such great and interesting content! It's hard to find creators that make videos like this who aren't just made by AI!
One of my favourite documentary channels. Please keep going!
I'm not just saying this because I'm a nerd... Well I'm not only saying it just because I'm a nerd. But I find the mantle length to be more practical measurement when I want to visualize without size comparison pictures, how big a squid is.
No, you're not a nerd for that and that should be the default measurement for these squid. Measuring tentacles creates a false impression of them being almost whale sized. In reality they are about the size of a tiger shark which is still big for a cephalopod, but nowhere near what the media tries to portray.
@@stoyantodorov2133 Yeah I think there is a reason why scientists use different measures for different animals.
Everytime I see your video in my feed, I’m like this is no click bait no myth shite, but just a very well researched video. Thank you for all your amazing videos mate. Keep it up 👍
Not a scientist.
My understanding is that squid are measured, not by total length (TL) but by Mantle Length (ML), because squid tentacles are quite elastic and folks reaching for records have stretched tentacles to their structural limit in order to inflate TL measurements. ML is the more reliable indicator of both size and mass.
It would have been funnier if Miguel had also brought along an expert to aid in his part of the video
Love these animals, love this channel. Thanks for the consistently awesome uploads
Thank you for the kind words 🙏 😊
@@wildworld6264 They're true words. I meant every letter. Keep on doing your thing king
This was fun! I love giant and colossal squid. I'd love to swim by its giant eye some day.
Somewhere in the depths of the ocean there is a sperm whale and a giant squid fighting to the death right now.
Glad I found your channel man. Excellent little documentaries!! 👏🏻
Thank you. I really appreciate all the comments.
@@wildworld6264 I’m sorry for all the comments man… I’ve just been binging your content 😂
I think there are some really large squid down there. The USS Stein incident always leaves me scratching my head. From what it sounds like it must of been a large colossal squid that attacked the ship based on the "claws" left attached to the ship. Which only the colossal squid has unless there is another squid we don't know about.
Just read about it that’s a crazy story. A colossal squid that size would be insane and not even a sperm whale would want to mess with that beast.
Great video, and thank you for adding the conversions.
I had requested this video, nice
Yeah I remember. Hope you enjoyed it!
What an unexpected but enjoyable collab
I was snorkeling in the Caribbean in 1983. We were anchored at a random island overnight while making our way to another large island.
While snorkeling close to the boat, I noticed three squid and swam closer to them. They seemed comical at first, looking like large noses. I was curious as they changed color with each move I made and sensed my presence wasn’t welcomed.
Just watching their behavior, flanking me, told me it was time to move away.
Thankfully my gut was on target as I later learned they will attack in groups if threatened.
I was young and stupid but did listen to my gut.
(These squid were at most three feet long)
I've seen them in the waters around Florida myself looking for all the world like a spaceship of some type complete with luminous running lights trailing all down their sides changing color at will. The way they could just hover or move up, down and side to side was unearthly. The ones I've seen were less than a foot in length but when they looked at me with those big eyes, I could sense an intelligence there and it seemed like they were as curious about me as I was about them. To this day I still have a hard time eating calamari although tartar sauce seems to help for some reason...
@@robertolesen5782 My goodness! Yes, I refuse to eat calamari now. They’re highly intelligent and magnificent to watch.
Their movements after I swam closer was telling me to back off, as they were moving faster and defensively.
A fourth one suddenly appeared and that was that! 😅
@@AimeeAimee444You can’t make colossal squid and giant squid a calamari. Basically a hoola hoop sized squid ring that’s pee flavored
@@loify8381 Yeah, their bodies have a lot of ammonia in them, to help with buoyancy. Essentially, they are inedible to humans.
@@loify8381 You can't eat gaint squid their bodies are filled with ammonia which help keeo them boyuant
I'm more excited for deep sea exploration than exploring space. I bet there are more alien looking creatures down there than we know right now!
This is a great video! I know this idea may never become a video but you should do a video about how big lions and tigers get or big cats in general
That's a good idea!
@@wildworld6264 thanks
Great video. I really enjoyed it!
The only thing I felt some disagreement about was the statement made by the marine biologist when she said "No larger specimen has EVER been seen." That is patently untrue. Squids that were larger and longer than sailing ships have been seen and reported by sailors and soldiers all over the world, for hundreds of years. While the hundreds of people who witnessed these creatures may not be scientists, it doesn't mean that their sightings are totally worthless.
I accept that scientifically verified specimens are few and relatively small, but many people, including members of the US Navy who are still alive today, have seen animals the DWARF the largest specimens yet measured by professional scientists. A few of those historical and contemporary sightings can be found in the pages of "Monsters and Marine Mysteries" by Max Hawthorne.
So sure, since most of the world's population are NOT fully accredited scientists, it is inevitable that most human-to-animal interactions will not be known to science. That does NOT mean that those interactions do not happen. I am certain that, one day, scientists will finally get the proof they need to admit that cephalopods grow to far larger dimensions than they are believed to reach today. I hope I'm still alive when that happens! Thanks for the great video!
Something to remember is embellishments. Books like ‘Monsters and Marine Mysteries’ have a tendency to fabricate aspects of writing and making shit up. One example is of a WW1 German Uboat sighting of a monster made by the captain who used a baby crocodile as a baseline for his illustration of the sighting and took the eye-witness stuff out of his ass for fame. He did captain the uboat but none of his crew have ever supported his testimony and his account varied in notable ways from each retelling. You also need to remember that people also have a tendency to exaggerate what they saw especially in these environments and are not the most reliable in any form of evidence there is a reason why witness testimony isn’t the most concrete thing around. Doesn’t mean they didn’t see anything but also doesn’t mean we have to take their word for gospel without proper evidence to back them up.
I would tend to dismiss stories of people claiming to see squid in the range of 100+ feet in length. To paraphrase Carl Sagan, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof." As much as I would LOVE to know that squid of that length exist, I think the truth is unfortunately more mundane.
@@victory8928 You hit it on the head with Hawthorne's 'Monsters and Marine Mysteries'. It's about selling books and not presenting facts. He even thinks there are Megalodons still roaming the seas - lol.
What about the incident with the USS Stein? The damage on the ship should be a proof that colossal squids grow larger than we think.
Love the way you narrate .. so peaceful especially after dinner ✌🏻
Amazing video as always, Maria is great and also looks like a science Jenna Marbles
Wild world is yet to miss and this is no exception.
Always appreciate the kind words. Thank you.
It's so cool to see your channel grow and improve while maintaining it's great quality, objectivity and genuineness.
The collabs were an excellent idea. Loved every bit of it.
Thanks for the continued support. I really appreciate it!
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I appreciate that!
A Sperm Whale was photographed in New Zealand with scars from a battle with a Giant Squid where the suction cup measured 10 - 12 inches/25-30cm
Fascinating!
Love your work dude
Have you seen how people fish for Humboldt squid with lines and special lures? Somebody should try it for giants with bigger lures and electric reels. It's probably possible to find them where swordfish are caught, swords eat a lot of squid and maybe big squid eat them.
Pretty sure a specimen of Architeuthis Dux (specifically A. Kirkii) washed up on a New Zealand beach was measured at 58 feet in length. I recall another (Possibly Catalina Bay?) measured at 55 feet. It used to be common to state "approximately 60 feet" as the accepted maximum for A. Dux, but in recent years it seems to have become "trendy" to downsize the giant squid to "about 40 feet".
Yeah it probably has to do with how few squids we get that are large and are able to be measured as soon and as undisturbed as possibly for accurate measuring. After all, Those two are not reliably measured which unfortunately makes it less reliable for measurements
@@victory8928 Depends how you define "reliable".
@@martinharris5017 reliable for me is stuff that you can give multiple experts in the same if similar fields and at least more than half agree that it is credible and I mean the whole evidence you got not some clip or whatnot. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof
Their bodies bloat and expand as they decay which can make them look bigger then they acctually are
@@JcoleMc freshly deceased specimens don't stretch 20 feet or more in length. A. Kirkii had a relatively short 12 foot mantle in relation to it's 57 ft overall length. That isn't bloating, that's good observation. TBH I've never seen a bloated squid corpse.
It’s a Kraken because it started out as a little octopus, and then it grows into a giant Kraken
Awesome video!
Thanks!
@@wildworld6264 you are very welcome!
One caught on November 2nd 1878 at Thimble Tickle Bay, Newfoundland was 55 feet long. The mantel was 20 feet and the feeding arms 35 feet.
Maybe the giant and colossal squid learned to evade subs with lights since they have very sensitive eyes. Also 3million+ squids hunted per day sounds like a whole lot of calamari.
Between the vastness and incredible size of the ocean, as well as the fact that the vast majority of specimens die in the deep sea, I think it is very possible that there are more massive individual squid than we know. The ones that we do happen to find on shore or at the surface is just the very tiny tip of the iceberg of the giant/colossal populations.
great vid!
Great video.
Thanks!
Great video with some great guest. Giant and Colossal Squid have always interested me. I agree with the experts in that the largest are around 13 meters. Is there possibly a 15 meter freak of nature out there? Maybe. Another super kaiju, giga chad, master chief species we've never seen? I agree with Sea, doubt it. Same reason megalodon is gone. Take care my friend.
A very interesting video. Although I don't know much about biology, oceanography and every other kind of science, even though I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed and I ain't even got a full deck of cards and albeit I'm just a redneck who hasn't been to sea in almost a decade and don't leave my holler for weeks on end, I can see that Maria is a beauty. And a very smart lady, too. This much I can tell.
Great video
Imagine a squid as big as a blue whale.
Was this a collab inside a collab? 🤔🤔🧐🧐
I was disappointed when i read these massive creatures have such short lives (about 7 years tops). Usually the largest critters have the longest life spans.
if we find a larger one we should call it the kraken
The hooked legs, i bet it's specialized to grasp on, like hook in loop, wherever the moss/mold grew on a high flow, descending face, like the verde little waterfalls you see in the woods in rainy seasons.
I was waiting for a mention of the BigFin Squid. Anofher awesome giant of the deep. Great video though.🐙🤟🏻🌏
Some of the sucker marks on sperm whales are as big as an extra large pizza, so we can assume there's 50 footers down there.
I like to believe there are sum propper monsters down there in the ocean... if not some form of squid, then maybe an eel , or even a crab or isopod type creature... and i'd like to use the giant isopod as an example for just how much bigger stuff can get down there... maybe theres lots of deap sea underwater caves, heated by thermal vents for example, and stretching for miles upon miles with their own biotope and all that jazz .. which could be a source of food for larger creatures yet undiscovered.. fantasy or not, i'd like ti believe it, cause it makes my view of the world more fantastic and mysterious and less dimm and depressed... xp
11:58 “if it existed, we would have probably seen signs of its existence.”
The stories of the Kraken throughout centuries! “Am I a joke to you?” 😂
The kraken is a nickname of giant squid, colossal squid and the giant Pacific octopus is even nicknamed the kraken.
@@ghostshirt1984 “Kraken” means “Up rooted tree” in old Nordic languages. It was given that name because that’s all people would see to describe when the giant cephalopod attacked.
@@ghostshirt1984 also it was in the Arctic Ocean not pacific as the word “Kraken” is of the Nordic region not other.
shes a succubus but related to squid ! they have same eyes and do same things
Everytime we see them out of water they're smaller than they'd be in the ocean which is pretty crazy to think about
Creepy animal. Their strength tho is amazing and scary. 😮 Can't imagine being snatched by one. Gruesome. A true monster to me. Fascinating, but no. I love the octopus and cuttlefish.
Colossal and giant squid should be measured without including the two tentacles. It is an exaggeration of 'size', e.g., including the non-occupiable spire height of a skyscraper, i.e., cheating for bragging sakes or adding hair length to human height. The squid should be measured from tip of fin to tip of beak.
No way whales are eating a billion giant squid per year. That number just seems very off.
Well it's one estimate. Other estimates put the number much lower.
Right? I mean, just how many sperm whales ARE there???
@@mournblade1066 Around 300,000 is the current estimate.
@@radseven89 Man, if 300,000 sperm whales are eating a billion giant squid, then said whales would be WAAAAYYYY fatter than they already are! Yeah, that's just crazy.
Head foot.
I was kind of disappointed there wasn't any speculative evolution talk on how large cephalopods could get. That would have been a nice capstone. IE: "There probably isn't any larger squids around today, AND the largest they could ever get thanks to physics and biology would by X"
Still, great video! Always nice to have experts on to explain things!
Its so great that we still have a lot of mysteries to dig into. Dont you guys go making the world a boring place too soon.
But if that happens we still have the cosmos to learn about.
Short answer: We really do not know with 100% certain. However, 42 feet is the longest documented giant squid.
60+ ft is more accurate estimate especially in older periods of time, nowadays they probably don't get to grow big enough due the threat of sperm whales, fishing nets, lack of food and climate change. I'd estimate largest they'd get to nowadays is 25-40 ft
I don’t eat fried squid of less than 30 metres of length
Who cares about the Giant-Squid with it's long skinny arms and sucker discs, when we've got the almighty Colossal-Squid and it's manacing tiger-claw like hooks? Pfft, even Humboldts may be out there pushing close to the Giant-Squid's mass. 🤣
It’s a the Kraken
Wow! A lot of calamari - are they tasty?
2:35. Not only the animal kingdom
While working at the Smithsonian I was 1 of 6 workers that got to examine over 28 bodies of giant squids and all measured a length of 88 feet long
We need to whale again and save the squid.
I nominate catfish for the next one
Women that scam men on line don't count😂, but if you're talking about real cat fish, the largest cat fish is the European wells catfish at 12 feet.
What really interests me is HOW BIG did ancient squids Get??? Sadly our fossil records do not preserve much of anything about these types of soft bodied lifeforms... It's a shame. I feel like we are missing a huge chunk of info about our past. Due to the vast limitations that our fossil record is capable of...
Damn when whales explodes after the decompose on beach they may very well hit u with a damn squid beak!
Are squid in general very smart like octopus and cuttlefish? I know Humboldt squid are smart.
The Kraken
It's actually insane that there's a predator that eats whales
This channel is smaller than I realized.
What about ancient giant long fin eel's and other similar type creatures that could have been much larger and more diverse in the past but we just don't know due to the limitations of the fossil records
I don’t think you need to convert all the metric numbers to Imperial measurements!
Most people today, have a good idea what 1 meter looks like.
Sir your sub count is criminally low. I genuinely expected at least 1M when I looked.
Unlikely, eh? But there's still a chance...!
3:15 that lady is so wrong it hurts. The colder it is and the more scarce the food is the larger animals get. Just look at deep sea gigantism or polar gigantism
Colossal squid 🐙 = Thic
In any search for a poorly-known animal of this sort, what you look for are the much more numerous juvenile specimens. Adult Architeuthis specimens are very rare, but juvenile specimens, say a few inches long, are much more common.
Already been done as juvenile giant squid stay closer to the surface than adults. Still a few hundred feet below the ocean but not thousand plus. Many baby giant squid have been caught but none have been able to be kept alive.
Kudos to all the people that passed NNN 👇
So colossal squid aren't over 10m long?
Copehagen messed up 😂😂 no way theres 1 type
I watched this on UA-cams slowest speed and it was hilarious
Release The Kraken.
Don't have to, they swim freely.
@@ghostshirt1984
I love all the giant squid scenes in Sphere.
200 miles
No matter how many giant squids are left let's hope we humans leave them alone.. don't add them to our trophy hunting list or some traditional medicine
Lol, always on the lookout for the Chinese. Meanwhile when I buy a can of squid here in Switzerland, it's nowadays always Humboldt squid from half a planet away. They really have gone from mysterious terror of the deep to target of mass fisheries
7:28 “sperm whales might be eating 3.6 million giant squid every day” seemingly faulty statement assuming that’s all sperm whales eat for it whole life! Other source says female giant squid eat more squid than males, with females eating 700-800 squids per day and males eating 300-400 squids per day, they also eat sharks, skates, fishes, etc
Arkatuthus?
Architeuthis. The giant squid is _Architeuthis dux_ . The colossal squid is _Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni_ .
Ok
How big do frogs get?
Can’t be that big otherwise we would find sperm whales are washed up on the beach with giant squid wrapped around them
This marine biologist was so helpful lmao.
I learned nothing… do sperm whales eat only giant squids, are all ~40 dead squids same sex and age, what are their closest relatives and whats their range in size of adult fully grown speciment and size diference betwean sexes so we can extrapolate sizes of giant and collosal squids
Wtf is a science communicator? People just love an important sounding title
A scientist who translates specialized information into terms that non-specialists can understand.
What about the kraken?