The
Giant Squid is a carnivorus marine cephalpod mollusk that have a long, torpedo shaped body and thaqt move through
the ocean using a jet of water forced out of the body by a siphon. At one end surrounding a beak like mouth, powerful enough
to cut through a steel like cable. The giant squid has Five pairs of arms one longer than the other {tentacles}.One piar thinner
and longer than the restis used to catch food and bring it to the mouth. Just past the mouth is the eyes, which are the largest
in the animal kingdom, are getting to be as big as a basketball {18 inches across}.
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Physical
Characteristics
It has eight arms, two
longer feeding tentacles, a beak, a large head, and two eyes larger than basketballs! These soft-bodied cephalopods are fast-moving
carnivores that catch prey with their tentacles, then poison it with a bite from beak-like jaws. They move by squirting water
through a siphon, a type of jet propulsion. They have a long, torpedo shaped body. Just past the mouth are the eyes. Eyes
that are the largest in the animal kingdom, getting as big as eighteen inches across.
