Sperm Whale Eats Giant Squid
“They are creatures of the deep immortalized in fictional bestsellers like Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick and Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. But these ultra-rare images of a colossal sperm whale feeding on a giant squid are the real thing. The captivating pictures show adult sperm whales feasting on a rare giant squid. Though the squid looks small beside the enormous whales, it is thought to be an incredible eight to ten metres long. One of the dead squid’s tentacles – a leftover scrap – was measured at a jaw-dropping three-and-a-half metres long. And experts now think the pictures could be some of the rarest ever captured beneath the ocean’s surface, showing as they do the sight of five adults teaching a hungry calf how to catch its prey.” w/ photos
