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What is a Giant Squid's Habitat?
Where does the giant squid live? Giant squid live deep underwater—in the Twilight Zone—at depths between 1,000 feet and about 2,000 feet. Since the gi...
What's the difference between a squid and octopus?
Their appendages: Octopuses have eight arms covered in suckers while squids have eight arms and two longer tentacles used to catch fish and shrimp in ...
What's the difference between squid and octopus?
What they eat: Octopuses usually eat crustaceans from the ocean floor while squids usually feed on shrimp and small fish in the water column. ... Thei...
What are the predators of squid?
Sperm whales are the only known regular predator of giant squids (and are really great at finding them too). Juvenile giant squids are prey to smaller...
Are squids molluscs?
Clams, Snails, and Squid: Phylum Mollusca, Class Cephalopoda Cephalopods are a group of molluscs that include the pearly chambered Nautilus, squids, a...
What do giant sqiud eat?
Giant squid mostly eat deep water fishes and other squids—including other giant squids. They also will attack schools of fish from below, quickly asce...
Are squids invertibrates?
Like all other cephalopods, squid have a distinct head, bilateral symmetry, and a mantle. ... Squid are rapid swimmers, moving by jet propulsion, and ...
How many species of squid have existed?
There are about 300 different species of squid. They are found in all of the oceans throughout the world, including n the freezing cold Antarctic wate...
What eats sqid?
Sperm whales are the only known regular predator of giant squids (and are really great at finding them too). Juvenile giant squids are prey to smaller...