Colossal Squid Far from Fearsome Predators | Wired Science | Wired.com
In the popular imagination, the colossal squid is fast and terrifying, able to dispatch whales and submarines with ease.
But the image of the squid as a nasty predator of the deep is probably more mythology than biology argue Rui Rosa of the Laboratorio Marıtimo da Guia in Lisbon and Brad Seibel of the University of Rhode Island in a new paper.
These huge squid, which can weigh more than 1,100 pounds, may have a supremely slow metabolism, allowing them to live on a measly tenth of a pound of fish flesh per day.