The giant squid has appeared in numerous tales as a fierce sea creature and till this time it is mystifying, there are more stories than concrete evidences for this mammoth sea creature which makes it even more mystifying and feared creature alive today. Research is based on the carcasses of the giant squid that are washed ashore. And due to this the real life of this deep water creature is virtually unknown to us.

The most asked question about the giant squid is of its size. The name giant is due to its mammoth size as been found with most of the evidences but still the debate is going on the largest squid ever found on records. There are hundreds of evidences of sightings of a giant squid and each time the squid gets longer in tales of sightings. Giant squid are the second largest living invertebrate, the first being the colossal squid. On records the largest squid found was a female giant squid that washed ashore on a New Zealand beach in 1887 18 meters long (59.5 feet). Its mantle was 5 meters (16.4 feet). It weighed 1 metric ton. Scientists and squid researchers have being trying their level best to capture or study a living giant squid but till this time their hard efforts have not borne fruits.