Scientists Finally Found The Colossal Squid Alive
Mr. OCEAN
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The colossal squid lives more than a kilometer below the surface of the Southern Ocean, in water dark enough that sunlight never reaches and cold enough to stop a human heart in minutes. For over a century scientists believed it was one of the rarest animals on Earth — until they looked at the scars on sperm whales. Circular wounds, healed over, each one the diameter of a rotating hook. The whales carried hundreds of them. The colossal squid was never rare. It was invisible. This is the story of an animal that weighs as much as eight adult humans, carries eyes the size of dinner plates, and fights back against the largest toothed predator on the planet — all in total darkness, a mile beneath the surface, where humans couldn't reach it until 2025.
Scientists Finally Found The Colossal Squid Alive
Mr. OCEAN
1,977 views
The colossal squid lives more than a kilometer below the surface of the Southern Ocean, in water dark enough that sunlight never reaches and cold enough to stop a human heart in minutes. For over a century scientists believed it was one of the rarest animals on Earth — until they looked at the scars on sperm whales. Circular wounds, healed over, each one the diameter of a rotating hook. The whales carried hundreds of them. The colossal squid was never rare. It was invisible. This is the story of an animal that weighs as much as eight adult humans, carries eyes the size of dinner plates, and fights back against the largest toothed predator on the planet — all in total darkness, a mile beneath the surface, where humans couldn't reach it until 2025.