The Elusive Yet Terrifying Beauty of Giant Squids
by Lori Dorn from Laughing Squid on (#6RS9E)
Paleontologist Danielle Dufault of Animalogic talked about the giant squid, the colossal squid, and the bigfin squid (magnapinna), noting how each of these cephalopods are terrifyingly beautiful yet incredibly elusive.
Squids are the largest invertebrates in the world. There are hundreds ofmillions of them in the ocean, and yetwe almost never see them. But why? Whatevolutionary tools do they have thatmake them so successful? And how havethey managed to avoid us for thousands of years?
