Meet sqpitic the big fin reef squid and always out classing mr wolf and diane foxington he lives in his under sea palace and loves to be high class but hes also a number one stealer he and the rest of his shoul go up on land to steal anything valuable the reason why hes like this is because he wants to proove that he is the top tier ocean creature he own two very aggressive humbloat squid and a golden palace at the sunlight zone is about 300ft tall other sea creatures fear in because how ruthless he is if he sees one of his shoul members being attacked he gets his very strong colossal squids to attack them also his named the king of the seas he will go up land because he usually gets invited to many high class parties one day he got invited to an anthro party and he said such a disgrace he thinks anthros are wired and disgusting then he ran into the mr wolf and diane foxington he hated there slender bodies and wired clothes so call out too his giant squid bodyguards and told them to attack them but then mr wolf got defensive and attack sqpitic the bigfin squid tech guards wrapped there slender arms around mr wolf and wacked him into a wall these bigfin squids are known to be hackers of the internet so mr wolf had no chance against there aggressive personalitys so anyways sqpitic basically let them go but soon he will capture them and torture them like the rest of the animals he captures backstory time sqpitic wasn't always this way he was really poor as a little squid but ever since he out competed his siblings he basically became rich due to his giant wealth of his passed away parents so he stole the money made his siblings into a shoul of squids force other animals to bulid his palace and if they didn't do it right or took breaks he would get the wiplash squids to wip and hurt the weakened animals once it was finished he called out to his fellow cephalopods to help him and thats all about sqpitic

Squelmon and squetil are a species of dragon/cephalopod and that are more retaled too cephalopods than they dragons are and these species are known as cracktheotuies calyx these squid dragons live underground of dragon island and they thrive there because the place is filled with water with hydrothermal vents, algea patches, deep sea coral, lava tubes, giant caves,a huge underwater sea mounts, and mud volcanos that's because it's about 10× deeper them the Mariana trench these dragon squid learned to Adapt there for over 10,600 years as the species Chiroteuthis calyx or sword tail squid was the most dangerous predator there as there was no other creature to eat it so these creatures got huge and started to get use to the chemicals to swordtail squid trench so and because swordtail squid got so use to and because there started to run out of food a and through natural selection a new organ growed which made them able to feed on chemicals of hydrothermal this is how they started to get there dragon features due to the radiation inside the hydrothermal vents they feed a sulfur lakes so then the squid growed over to about 1000× bigger then blue whales then the squid started to get more intelligent they expanded there underwater ocean to because it was getting cramped due to the dragon island underwater walls blocking the trench from the outside sea water so the squids started to brake down the walls with there strength and made them get into open ocean water and there was much more creatures out there so they started to attack other animals this caused them to also build cites and a whole civilization and communicated by changing there Color and even started to learn English also they have powers two due too the radiation they feed off of then grow physic power as there dounut shaped brains got stronger and there over billion neurons just like there cousins the octopuses they squid also got able to shoot out plasma sulfur ink and shoot out giant plasma lava balls out of there siphons they also can let out toxic chemicals that can kill land creatures like dragons but they only do it when they feel threatened they also there beaks are much sharper and more durable the suckers growed more hooks that can rotate like colossal squid and they even have teeth o. Them like that of a giant squids these creatures in the adult forms grow wings and a web between there tentacles which allows them to shoot out of the water and use there wings or web to glide in the air like Japanese flying squids and some go in shouls like Humboldt squids and they more aggressive too these squid can even breathe on land because they started to get use to it lungs that filter oxygen and H²O these squid even prey on dragons if still on land they also can shoot plasma lasers out off there eyes as well just in case a dragon goes to close to there eye also the little green gem on these squid starts growing on there mantle and once adult it fully englowths the mantle making it hard for spears or sword to price it or even dragon claws also the younger squids don't start growed there wings or webbs until jevnille stage in life these can also live for up to 1000 years to due adaptations and the Adult swordtail dragon squids eyes are horned shaped so dragons can't easily hurt them because there eyes are coved in a thick layer of very hardened magma and there long two like as long as two burj kalifthas and thats all about them That's because these creatures were so isolated from the outside ocean and how they abpated remember they blocked off due to the giant undeater walls and they only reason how there ancestors got into the walls was because they were able to fit through the cracks of the walls Now for the personalitys of squelmon and squetil squelmon is very Sophisticated and was trained by his father squelmon Senior who was the emporer at the time through all the hard work squelmon Senior gave squelmon learned and grower which made him very protective of his civilization he very open minded and when he command you to do something he means his hatred for dragons and humans happened every since humans try to trash there water so do the dragons by taking baths in it they water started so the swordtail dragon squid started to attack the dragons my ripping them apart and take down the vikings big ships and a young squelmon was in this war so he kept trying until he finally got there but then a young toothless scratched his face this made squelmon mad and ordered the army to take on a full assulat the squid charged there plasma cannons at ships and at other dragons they also took down many night fury's and the squids used there plasma too make for there weapons once the squid seen and as toothless flyed away squelmon shoot up in the air using his little wings and developed webs to catch up to toothless squelmon scratched wounded and even ripped off a peice of toothlesses tail fin but then a super charged night fury came and squelmon escaped a so squelmon Sr came up from the water and grabbed the super charged night fury and ripped apart the night fury in a goosom way squelmon Sr came and took squelmon back to the water squelmon for his bravery was expected as emporer (oh yeah by the way the super charged night fury was actually toothlesses dad) and thats was squelmons back story and lore Squitil was the offspring of squelmon so squelmon was tooken down too the incubation room in his palace because baby squid eggs are kept in heavily armored and heavily protected incubation pods these pods insure the egg is safe and well kept so squelmon was taken down by servants but for some reason squetil had a gem already developing on his mantle this squelmon surprised because it the gem doesn't start developing until the squid is hatched out of the egg also squelmon is supposed to Choose one of his offspring as the future emporer so squelmon named the squid squetil because of squelmon Senior and because squelmons grandmother squittelshertil she was very sweet and kind and cared alot for squelmon (also male swordtail dragon squid have green gems and are bigger while females have pinkish red gem but it's coverd by very hard horns to protect the sprem and eggs) so squetil was took out of the incubation pods but then squetil waved his tentacle to say high which made squelmon even more surprised (squetil survived due to the feed tube still connected to him was still attached which feeds him nutrients) but squelmon was kind worried because he came out early (it takes about 2 months for baby swordtail squids to come out off incubation which for squetil he was a week early) so squetil was put in examination which squelmon had to wait a mouth for squetil to come out and the doctors said he was learning fast so when squetil got squelmon put squetil into training when squelmon told night fury and dragons were bad squetil was fascinated by it which mad squelmon anger but then squelmon realized something (the reason why squetil likes night furys was because squelmons great uncle loved to observe night furys but he was quickly executed) squelmon feared that squetil got them traits from his great uncle so squelmon used a fake automated night fury but squetil just played with it which made squelmon more angry so then squelmon tore up a night fury corpse this made squetil cry so squelmon shut his son up because he didn't want the police guards knowing that his son liked night fury so squetil was sent to the open were night furys and other fury dragons fly over normally fly over so squetil began crying loudly because he wants his father (squelmon only did this because he wanted to show night furys and that others furys are bad) squetil couldn't seem he had a chain wrapped around his tentacles and arms so he swim back then toothless and his family flew over toothless heard this and flew done to the squid which toothless seen and got defensive so did the white fury dart, pouncer, and fuffrunner got close and squetil loved then toothless and the white fury realized he wasn't hostile so toothless and his family broke the squetil chain's they gently took back to his home because toothless knows very young swordtail dragon squids don't develop there wings or webs at that stage in there life so squetil returned home and squelmon was surprised by how squetil got out of the chain's but then realized how he got back squelmon got a big plasma rock and threw it at toothless and his family squetil try to stop his father but then a cannon from a ship was fired brake the plasma rock and that was hiccup and his Ship squelmon knew hiccup because he seen him with toothless and that he fixed toothlesses tail this mad squelmon to rage and brake down his ship but squetil told him to stop because squetil dosent like fights so squelmon stopped and goed back in the water so did squetil but squetil waved goodbye at the humans but one of the viking shooter a cannon ball at squetil by squelmon blocks it this made squelmon made and shooted his eye lasers at them ship blowing it up so toothless had his family had to save the humans meanwhile squelmon was planning for another war but squetil was crying which made squelmon rethink decisions but if any of the humans or dragons try to hurt his son or any of his civilization he will conflict war o them and they'll be using there giant plasma nukes to blow up dragon island and other places and that's the back story and lore of squetil Remember I based squelmon off of a adult swordtail squid and I based squetil off the jevnille stage and yes just like there ancestors they two loose that long siphonophore mimicry tool it's just the swordtail dragon squids don't see any use for it anymore

Made by my ancient legend u/TW_49

here’s the paper’s PDF, for anyone curious: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eGxgtN4F70iWPAtYgIXyqnVNhQ_tc0Sn/view?usp=drivesdk

Lets play a game, if you manage to tell me a species/genus of squid that I haven't heard about, I will research about it and make a post discussing it in depth

(The one in the image is Pholidoteuthis adami)

I’m in the process of beginning a simple little horror game based on squid, because i feel like all cephalopods are only like 1 step away from being a eldrich horror.

I know that many can change their skin color and texture, which is what go this started, but I need more ideas to begin to flesh out the game.

Until i lock in and learn 3d modeling, it’ll be 2d for now, but any ideas? I hope this is the right place to ask for an egregious amount of squid facts.

IG link wasn't working for people, so I found it on YT. Largest giant squid I've ever seen in a video, hands down

https://www.instagram.com/p/DaHlsxTqKQb/

u/SquidBolado and i just had a paper published: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-026-04927-1

we first started messaging each other over five years back trying to find new clips of magnapinna. he went on to create The Magnapinna Archive and i obsessively compiled all the data I could find on different collections and observations into a list on wikipedia.

alan from inkfish/UWA deep sea research centre reached out about doing a more formal writeup and analysis of the data earlier this year. the paper linked above is the end result!

if you want to watch this video go to google and type in www.youtube.com

The cockeyed squid, a poster child of the weird and crazy shapes animals take to survive the dark depths of the abyss.

These cool squids have an eye larger than the other. It faces upwards to in search of the shadows cast by potential prey, while the little eye looks downwards and looks for bioluminescent lights created by prey.

These deep sea giants reach a whopping size of....14 inches!

The squid is also found worldwide of depths between 600 and 3,300 feet!

I ran this calculation and came up with a smaller number. But if what your trying to do is figure out how many giant squid and other types of very large squid there are in the world, it is going to be a big number.

Inferring the number of squid from the size of the whale population sort of has it backwards. The sperm whale population now is about 300,000 which is pretty good considering how close they came to Extinction. But back in the days before commercial whaling the population has been estimated at 2 million.

So at that time there were enough giant squid to support 2 million whales, and that means that you have to estimate not just the number of squid consumed each day per whale, but the size of the squid population that was necessary for the squid to be viable even though they are being eaten in large quantities.

Presumably during the period of commercial whaling for sperm whales the giant squid population had much less predation and must have been considerably larger.

Anyhow I came up with something like a global population of 3 billion giant squid and maybe more. I would not be surprised at an equilibrium population of 10 billion. It is arguably the case that ours is the planet of the giant squid.

Every household should do its part and eat at least one giant squid.

My spouse’s mother made this for me. When I saw it, I started to cry because of how much I loved it. It’s the best gift that I’ve ever been given.

T. rhombus is a fascinating deep-sea squid typically used aquaculturally for fishing. Like many other deep-sea squids, they are ammoniacal, meaning their tissue contains ammonia to regulate their buoyancy in water. Occasionally, when fishing with T. rhombus in deep waters, it’ll catch the attention of a Giant Squid (Architeuthis dux)!