20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne. H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu. These fantasies feature giant squids, or something very like them.
I like a plate of fried calamari. But the giant squid–50 feet long, sometimes longer: nobody really knows for sure–well, that’s another story. A very dramatic one: here’s a clip from the movie.
Anyhow, we don’t know how many gigantic squids there might be in the ocean, how they live, how big they get to be, etc., etc. Sperm whales eat them. Big squids wash up on the shore, dead as doornails. I don’t think anyone has ever seen a live one…
And lived to tell about it.
Have you ever seen the magnapinna, Lee? It’s another one of those things that seems right out of Lovecraft.
I had to look it up. Yikes!
The mind staggers at the possibilities. Fortunately, giant squids are quite rarely seen, here in the desert. 🙂
I remember seeing this film as a child – great entertainment.
Me too, when I was a small child. I’m scared, to this day. 🙂
Stay away from those Arizona giant squid habitats.
Yep. Venomous snakes, venomous lizards, spiders that want to kill you, jaguars and predatory giant squids. 🙂 As I write that. At 7:35 AM, it’s already 93 degrees outside, so most of our squids end up as calamari. 🙂