The colossal squid’s beak is so sharp and muscled because of how small it needs to make the food. Although the squid itself is huge, the tube that the food has to pass through for digestion — which runs through its brain, by the way — is thinner than your thumb. Before any food gets to be jettisoned back into the black expanse of the deep sea, the colossal squid has to turn meter-long fish into tiny pulp. Jump to 2:10:00 to see the beak reveal and 1:48:00 to see the eye dissection. nerdist/2014/09/watch-scientists-dissect-the-second-intact-colossal-squid/
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 21:01:52 +0000