![]() They eat fish, smaller squid and crustaceans.įact 9 The common squid lives about one to two years.įact 10 They squirt a dark liquid or ink to distract their attackers when chased. When they go forwards, squids swim backwards.įact 7 Female squid lay thousands of eggs at a time at the bottom of the ocean.įact 8 They are carnivores. Squids have large brains and considered extremely intelligent.įact 6 They swim backwards because their arms, tentacles and hearts are on the front of their bodies and their fins are on their back. Their eyes are the largest in the animal kingdom.įact 5 Mature females squid are larger than mature male squid. They expel water rapidly from their mantle cavity when swimming and this water passes through a funnel which helps them move with a tail-first action.įact 4 Giant squids have big old beaks that are supposedly very sharp and resist fractures and bending. They are mainly soft-bodied, like octopuses, but have a small internal skeleton in the form of a rod-like gladiusor pen, made of chitin. Like all other cephalopods, squid have a distinct head, bilateral symmetry, and a mantle. They have two gills called ctenidia and three hearts.įact 3 They swim faster than any other invertebrate. A squidis a molluscwith an elongated soft body, large eyes, eight arms, and two tentaclesin the superorder Decapodiformes. They can be found in both fresh as well as salt water. ![]() Some squids are only 24 inches long while others are more than 40 feet in length.įact 2 Squids are found in oceans all over the globe and are the favorite meal of many sea-dwelling creatures. Fact 1 Squids are shaped like torpedoes with a distinct head, mantle or body, eight tentacles with suckers and two paired tentacles for capturing and eating prey.
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