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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer
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Though giant squids are considerably less then a mile and a half across, they are large enough to wrestle with a sperm whale.
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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They did that with giant squids and aliens and time travel and gill-people.
Giant squids have been reported to overtake a ship traveling at twelve knots, but only one account of an attack by a giant squid on a ship of men has ever been recorded on film.
While accounts of giant squids attacking ships and boats abound, few (if any) of these have much credibility.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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The giant squid is classified in the genus Architeuthis of the family Architeuthidae.
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Billie Kirgan,
Machinist
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Squid giant axon provides clues to nerve cell repair.
Studies on the squid giant axon led to our understanding of the ionic basis of the action potential.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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The squid giant axon was the biological preparation where all the original experimental information was obtained by Hodgkin and Huxley.
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Sasha Prevette,
Kindergarten student
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Even today, giant squids as monsters of the deep find themselves scratched on the pages of terror novels and scripted on the silver screen.
Sperm Whales are seen year round, it is believed that they feed on giant squids at depths of over 5,000 feet.
For more than 60 years, the giant nerve axons of squids have answered many fundamental questions about neurophysiology.
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