David Attenborough

I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else.

British Journalist

Brian Skerry

I've been diving for about 30 years, and I can honestly say that I've had some amazing encounters with sharks, squids, and other whales. But the encounter with the right whales in the Auckland Islands was probably the best thing I've ever done. It was just that amazing.

American Photographer

Rick Stein

South-east Asian salads are a great balance of salty, sweet-sour and spicy. Its important to have both pork and seafood, but you can vary the seafood from prawns and squid to crab meat or even small pieces of firm fish such as monkfish, John Dory or gurnard.

English Chef

Edith Widder

Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sperm whales, it's thought that there are actually millions of them in the ocean, and yet, we haven't seen them.

American Scientist

Selma Blair

I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into a vegetarian in high school. I'm not anymore, but in high school, we were dissecting squid.

American Actress

David Grann

I guess if I had to pick one interest that is unique, it would be giant squids - I'm disturbingly fascinated by them and even wrote a story about the hunt for them.

American Journalist

Sylvia Earle

Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.

Judith Durham

I used to delight in eating the most exotic meat on the menu: I'd have the snails, camel, squid or anything else that was going.

Australian Musician

Yotam Ottolenghi

Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long.

Israeli Chef

Tom Douglas

The key to great fried squid is 'flash-frying' in hot oil for only a few minutes, which keeps it tender.

American Chef

Recognize 'squid' refers to many species, not one specific type.

Animal Species

Understand that 'squid' can also refer to a type of seafood in cooking.

Culinary Context

Know 'squid' appears in myths and stories as mysterious sea monsters.

Cultural Imagery

In fishing, 'squid' can mean a tool, not the live animal.

Fishing Gear

A squid lure mimics the real thing to attract predatory fish.

Attracting Fish

As a verb, 'squid' involves using a lure that resembles a squid.

Fishing Action

Squidding can refer to fishing in certain seasons when squids are plentiful.

Seasonal Activity

'Squid' slang for risky riders is informal and often used among bikers.

Motorcycle Slang

Using 'squid' for riders hints at their lack of safety awareness.

Safety Reminder

 goes to like a squid summit every year I mean who knew that this kind of didn't even existed and it really made me think there needs to be more scientists like her because she realized that the probe that they were sending down into the deep ocean that has the most horrific sound that she played for us for like

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 harboring a huge diversity of life, from giant squids and goblin sharks to minuscule animals smaller than a millimeter. How do so many species thrive in this underwater world? Over the decades, intrepid scientists have ventured there to find out. Traveling down through the water column,

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 seabirds, fish, and even other squid. Indeed, squid themselves are fearsome ocean predators. But their most extraordinary adaptations are those that have evolved to help them thwart their predators. Squid, which can be found mainly in estuarine, deep-sea, and open-water habitats,

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 because it lives about half a mile deep in the ocean where the light is very dim we took these pictures from a deep diving robotic submarine and you can see the reflection of our lights in that beautiful blue eye the vampire squid has eight long arms and a long curly strand

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 I gave a talk on unobtrusive viewing and optical luring of deep sea squid in which I emphasized the importance of using quiet, unobtrusive platforms for exploration. This came out of hundreds of dives I have made, farting around in the dark

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 Young, smaller squid can potentially fly faster and farther than their larger relatives. And since adult squid tend to cannibalize juveniles, soaring above the surf can help ensure these young squid will live to fly another day.

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 column in a sort of symmetrical position. Vampire squid was one of them. Massive eyes. Extraordinary, absolutely extraordinary. They often do have massive eyes, don't they in the deep sea, because it is so dark

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 david how are you doing all right how are you brett is an expert on the early stages of cephalopod life that group of animals that includes octopuses cuttlefish and squid exactly so how's everything going over

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 Within a short time span, three-quarters of the world's species disappeared forever, and the giant dinosaurs, flying pterosaurs, shelled squids, and marine reptiles that had flourished for ages

When will the next mass...

 humboldt squid numbers are growing rapidly but they remain mysterious as fast as they arrived they disappear back into the deep