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...giant squid is "the single most fascinating mystery in the ocean, and perhaps the single most fascinating mystery in natural history," Ellis said...
...squid, which has never been seen alive by a human being, has long been the subject of ocean folklore and myth...
...centuries, dismayed sailors and startled whalers would return from their voyages with stories of huge, tentacled sea monsters that terrorized the ocean. For the landlocked, these stories were mere exaggerations-until...
Giant squid are assumed to live at depths of more than 4,000 feet, in the coldest and darkest parts of the ocean, he said...
According to Ellis, an even greater mystery is the giant squid's relationship to its chief predator, the sperm whales, huge ocean beasts that weigh up to 60 tons...