Walk-around of the Favorite
Marine Life Soft Model FM-912 Giant Squid, Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857; sculpted by Hirokazu Tokugawa. Total length including the two tentacles is 319 mm, length including arms is approx. 208 mm, and mantle length is 90 mm, so the scale is between approx. 1:20 and 1:25 for a mature female individual. "Freddie the Free Diver" by Safari Ltd is approx. 1:22.5 - 1.24 scale. Impressively huge cephalopods (second in its dimensions only to the even larger Colossal Squid,
Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni Robson, 1925), Giant Squid females can reach mantle lengths between 1.8 and 2.25 m and a body mass up to 275 Kg. Despite having been formally described in the middle of the 19th Century, the species was only known from carcasses and dying specimens until quite recently and the first ever video documentation showing it in its natural environment was in 2012. This figure was released in 2014 and thus could reflect newer insights of the species' general appearance in life. Although the global population size is unknown, IUCN lists the Giant Squid as "
Least Concern".











Edit 2017-02-05: Fixed broken image urls.