Why Squids Become TERRIFYING The Deeper The Ocean Gets

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The ocean! A wild and wonderful marine amusement park of biodiversity. But have you ever wondered if the ocean is too diverse? Because what terrible nightmare world would allow THIS to exist?

Sources:

Giant Eel
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-giant-squid-dragon-of-the-deep-18784038/
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2011/05/deep-sea-gigantism-curious-cases-of-mystery-giant-eels/

Giant Squid
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/05/24/the-squid-hunter
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jzo.12347?referrer_access_token=y8bS7iJp0oyZCnjsUD_xyIta6bR2k8jH0KrdpFOxC649c1iuigJBkw-Lq_zPM0_nO1Yy24XMT8zhT02E99AH8jRwXthdKSI5VRbIFjCFRsFniy3F672P7c2Qx9XjbXut6LnCnQA9STDky2cUfdY5yg%3D%3D
https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/giant-squid

Giant Isopod
http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/onlinelearningcenter/species/giant_isopod
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-1-4020-6359-6_3742
https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/02/22/280249001/i-wont-eat-you-cant-make-me-and-they-couldnt?ft=1&f=1007

Magnapinna Squid
https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/24170/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6052505_Observational_Learning_in_Octopus_vulgaris
https://web.archive.org/web/20081227193047/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081124-giant-squid-magnapinna_2.html

Possible Explanations for Size
https://www.britannica.com/science/Bergmanns-Rule
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/maths-power-laws/0/steps/12169

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