{"id":32892,"date":"2025-04-18T17:35:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T12:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=32892"},"modified":"2025-05-28T12:09:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T06:39:44","slug":"colossal-squid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/colossal-squid\/","title":{"rendered":"Colossal Squid"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Colossal Squid Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Marine scientists recently captured the world&#8217;s first footage of a colossal squid swimming freely in its natural habitat &#8211; nearly a century after the species was first identified.<\/p>\n<h2>About Colossal Squid<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is<strong> one of the largest and most elusive invertebrates <\/strong>on Earth.<\/li>\n<li>Scientific Name: Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution<\/strong>: It is found in the <strong>icy depths <\/strong>of the<strong> Southern Ocean near Antarctica.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Colossal Squid Features<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This <strong>soft-bodied marine animal<\/strong> is somewhat l<strong>ike an octopus<\/strong>, <strong>but <\/strong>with a <strong>much bulkier frame and far greater length.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has a <strong>tube-shaped body, huge eyes, and arms and tentacles with suckers<\/strong> to grab food.<\/li>\n<li>It can reach lengths of up to 7 metres (around 23 feet) and weight as much as 500 kilograms.<\/li>\n<li><strong>When they\u2019re young,<\/strong> these creatures are <strong>almost see-through<\/strong>, giving them the <strong>glassy, ghost-like look<\/strong> that\u2019s typical of many deep-sea juveniles.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>As they grow,<\/strong> their appearance changes drastically, taking on a <strong>deep red or purplish colour <\/strong>and developing <strong>thick, muscular arms.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fully grown, <\/strong>they are believed to be the <strong>largest invertebrates on Earth<\/strong>, meaning they have no bones but can still grow to massive sizes.<\/li>\n<li>What really sets the colossal squid apart, though, are the <strong>sharp, swivelling hooks on its tentacles,<\/strong> something <strong>no other squid species has.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s also known for having the <strong>largest eyes of any animal<\/strong> ever discovered, believed to help it detect prey and predators in the pitch-black ocean depths.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Colossal Squid Conservation Status:<\/strong> It is classified as Least Concern under the IUCN Red List.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/colossal-squid-caught-on-camera-for-first-time-in-deep-sea\/article69460433.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover the colossal squid, one of Earth&#8217;s largest and most elusive invertebrates, lurking in the deep ocean with eyes the size of dinner plates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":32901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[173,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-32892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-colossal-squid","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}