Giant squids live in deep water more than 2,950 feet (900 m) below the surface and are rarely seen in the wild. 📸🦑
One of the deep sea's most elusive and spectacular creatures, the giant squid , recently astonished a group of tourists after it washed up as a half-eaten corpse on a New Zealand beach. A tour guide who was leading the group at the time described the chance finding as a"once-in-a-lifetime" experience.
"It's not a common find on any beach, so if you're able to be there at the right time, it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," Anton Donaldson, the Farewell Spit Tours guide who was leading the group, told The New Zealand Herald . But it was also sobering to see such a"magnificent example of a large sea creature" dead on the land, he added.
"It looked like [the tentacles] had been chewed back by some other sea creatures, such as small sharks or fish," Donaldson said."While I don't know for sure, I imagine it had been floating out there for a period of time and had washed up."
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