Summary: <p>We’re going to learn about the colossal squid in this episode, with bonus info about the giant squid…and then we’re going to learn about the massive things that eat this massive squid!</p> <p>A giant squid, looking slightly guilty for eating another squid:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-701" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/giant-squid_thumb.ngsversion.1496697146815.adapt_.1900.1-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300"></p> <p>A colossal squid, looking less than impressive tbh:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-702" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/270px-Colossal_squid_caught_in_February_2007.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="173"></p> <p>THAT EYEBALL:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-703" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/colossal-squid-eyes-300x165.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="165"></p> <p>A sperm whale looking baddass:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-704" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/aspermwhale-300x144.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="144"></p> <p>A southern sleeper shark, looking kind of boring:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-705" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/southernsleepershark-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200"></p> <p><strong>Show transcript:</strong></p> <p>Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw.</p> <p>This week we’re going to learn first about the colossal squid, and then we’re going to learn about what eats the colossal squid.</p> <p>You’ve probably heard of the giant squid, but maybe you haven’t. Let’s start with it, because the giant squid and the colossal squid are both massive, amazing deep-sea animals.</p> <p>Stories of huge squid go back to ancient times. Aristotle and Pliny wrote about it, the legend of the kraken may be at least partially inspired by it, and sailors have told stories about it for time out of mind. Naturalists of the mid-19<sup>th</sup> century knew it must exist because whalers had found enormously long tentacles and huge beaks in sperm whale stomachs. But except for the occasional badly damaged specimen washed up on shore, no one had seen a giant squid. Certainly no one had seen a living giant squid.</p> <p>It wasn’t until 2001 that a live giant squid was caught on film, and then it was only a larval squid. In 2002 a live adult giant squid was caught off the coast of Japan. It wasn’t especially big, just 13 feet l</p>
