Why does Hollywood only use made up creatures for monster movies,

>>85635804
Pictured is an adult male, largest squid caught whole, and calculated size of largest squid based on sucker marks found on dead sperm whales

>The existence of these gargantuan squids is often supported by reference to the giant circular scars sometimes found on sperm whales, which are assumed to have been inflicted by the suckers of struggling giant squid. Sometimes these claims are accompanied by extrapolations of body size based on the isometric upscaling of a "typical" giant squid. However, such scars are not necessarily of squid origin and may instead represent fungal growths or bite marks, with sea lampreys (Petromyzon marinus) being one possible source (Wood, 1982:193). Even in the case of genuine giant squid sucker marks it is possible that subsequent skin growth has enlarged them well beyond their original dimensions (Wood, 1982:192).
>Based on the examination of 130 specimens and of beaks found inside sperm whales, giant squids' mantles are not known to exceed 2.25 m (7.4 ft). Including the head and arms, but excluding the tentacles, the length very rarely exceeds 5 m (16 ft). Maximum total length, when measured relaxed post mortem, is estimated at 13 m (43 ft) for females and 10 m (33 ft) for males from the posterior fins to the tip of the two long tentacles. Giant squid exhibit sexual dimorphism. Maximum weight is estimated at 275 kg (606 lb) for females and 150 kg (330 lb) for males.

>>85635804
a movie underwater would be boring for most people

>>85636028
Wow thanks for crushing my dreams of being raped by a giant squid

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This boneless faggot swims up the Okhotsk Sea and outgrows your Giant squid, what do?

>>85636268
>Extreme penis elongation has been observed in the deep water squid Onykia ingens. When erect, the penis may be as long as the mantle, head, and arms combined (Arkhipkin & Laptikhovsky, 2010:299; Walker, 2010). As such, deep water squids have the greatest known penis length relative to body size of all mobile animals, second in the entire animal kingdom only to certain sessile barnacles (Arkhipkin & Laptikhovsky, 2010:300).

It's never too late my friend. Follow your dreams and never give up.

>>85636028
Do you have a more modern response to this?

>>85636351
Come on everybody knows the truly scary thing about giant squids isn't their size (or their penis size) but their intelligence.

>>85636351
Why, have any of the facts changed?

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>>85636268
soon...

>>85636424
directed by Michael Bay

>>85636424
How is it moving around so fast? Almost like it knows the camera is watching and is teleporting

>>85636484
>H-HAYAI
You are too pure anon

>>85636484
He was about to unsheathe his katana but decided it wasn't worth it

>>85636424
I-IT'S FAST!

>>85636484
gave me a chuckle

>>85636395
That's what I wanted to know. 82 is a long time ago for biology of the deep ocean.

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Regarding squid intelligence, here's what Wiki has to say about Humboldt squids (pic related)
>Roger Uzun, a veteran scuba diver and amateur underwater videographer who swam with a swarm of the animals for about 20 minutes, said they seemed to be more curious than aggressive. In circumstances where these animals are not feeding or being hunted, they exhibit curious and intelligent behavior. They are probably AT LEAST as intelligent as the octopus, which in turn has been shown to have comparable cognitive capacity to that of a DOG.

These fellas are know to attack humans when provoked, by the way. Now imagine that on the size of the largest giant squid.

>>85636587
Having a quick read, most size estimates (based on around 700 or so specimens in various states, of which only a smart part is preserved whole) enforce the average 15m length limit (tentacles and all) for females, at least as late as of 2013. There is a possibility that larger specimens exist, of course, maybe even up to 20m, but not likely there are truly humongous specimens like in OP's pic swimming around.

>>85636662
Forgot to clarify, 700 or so specimens reported historically, the current size estimates are corroborated on that, but rely on exact 50 specimens in the last 40 year period.

>>85636351
>>85636587
Here's the most modern, albeit very controversial estimate for a number of reasons (it's based entirely on historical reports rather then specimen size estimates):
>Older records of 18 m or more were likely exaggerated by stretching of the long feeding tentacles or resulted from inadequate measurement methods such as pacing (O'Shea & Bolstad, 2008; Roper & Shea, 2013:113). Paxton (2016) performed a statistical analysis using literature records of giant squid specimens and concluded that "squid with a conservative TL of 20 m would seem likely based on current data", but the study has been heavily criticised by experts in the field (Greshko, 2016).

>>85636601
arent they related to slugs? Do they even have a central nervous system comparable to a brain?

>>85636424
h-he's fast!

>>85635804
>there will never be a film about the horrors of the sea without characterizing sea creatures

How terrifying would a film about a sunk sub slowly filling with water with sea creatures you cant quite see gliding past your feet

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>>85636796
They belong in the same phylum as slugs, but bare in mind that all vertebrates belong in the same phylum too. Squids, and all Cephalopods as far as I know have a brain (pic related), and regarding that:
>The squid giant synapse is the largest chemical junction in nature. It lies in the stellate ganglion on each side of the midline, at the posterior wall of the squid’s muscular mantle. Many essential elements of how all chemical synapses function were first discovered by studying the squid giant synapse (see Llinás, 1999).
>Squid giant axons can exceed 1 mm (0.039 in) in diameter: 100 to 1000 times the thickness of mammalian axons. The axons of the Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) are exceptional in that they can reach a diameter of as much as 1.5 mm (0.059 in).Such was the importance of Humboldt squid to electrophysiology research that when the animals migrated out of reach of Chilean fishermen in the 1970s "it led to the demise of a world-class electrophysiology laboratory" based there (Scully, 2008).
>Squid giant axon diameters do not necessarily correlate with overall body size; those of the giant squid (Architeuthis dux) are only 0.137–0.21 mm (0.0054–0.0083 in) thick (Adelman & Gilbert, 1990:102).

>>85635804
Where have you been? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5e-53KVyCE

>>85635804
>hE FELL FOR THE SQUID MEME

What age are you? 8? 9?

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>This pleb is forgetting the most iconic squid in movie history
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qokWn0jfbM4

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>>85636967
Imagine exploring an underwater wreck for treasure and suddenly squids

>no media will ever truly capture the terrifying nature of the ocean depths
feels bad man. The one horror kino to rule them all will never exist.

>>85637675
VR will fix it

>>85637718
Will there be futa squids?

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Arrival had pretty good alien design

>>85635859
What's the bottom one?

>>85640005
Your moms dildo

>>85636967
Because a sunken sub would never slowly fill with water.

>>85640858
technically it could

>>85639969
Kinda seemed terrible. It's basically a faceless torso of a man grafted on a tiny set of tentacles.

>>85641069
Yeah, but they float in heir natural environment.

>>85635804
>monsters

they are total bros with humans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouDegt8MQso

(not sure about the colossal squid though)

>>85635804
The monster are people!

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>/deep sea general/?

/DSG/

>>85642691
>implying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRaNcUkUwg8
There are reports of those things attacking humans.

>>85642753
>12 years later
>age of stingray-sploitation horrors has never arrived

strange

>>85642798
only Humboldts, and when they are in a feeding frenzy, otherwise see >>85636601

tales of giant squid attacks probably come from fishermen stumbling upon sick and dying specimens on the surface that were trying not be caught

>>85639969

It didn't really look like that in the movie.

>>85643128
they did, its just that they were lit and filmed like a snyder movie

>On February 22, 2007, authorities in New Zealand announced the largest known colossal squid had been captured. The specimen weighed 495 kg (1,091 lb) and was initially estimated to measure 4.5 m (15 ft) in total length.

>The eye is 27 cm (11 in) wide, with a lens 12 cm (4.7 in) across. This is the largest eye of any known animal.[4] These measurements are of the partly collapsed specimen; when living the eye was probably 30[5] to 40 cm (12 to 16 in) across.

>The beak is considerably smaller than some found in the stomachs of sperm whales,[25][26] suggesting other colossal squid are much larger than this one.

>>85643264
>Unlike the giant squid, whose arms and tentacles have only suckers lined with small teeth, the colossal squid's limbs are also equipped with sharp hooks: some swivelling, others three-pointed.

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>She is noteworthy as a U.S. Navy vessel that has apparently been attacked by an unknown species of giant squid. In 1978, the "NOFOUL" rubber coating of her AN/SQS-26 sonar dome was damaged by multiple cuts over 8 percent of the dome surface. Nearly all of the cuts contained remnants of sharp, curved claws found on the rims of suction cups of some squid tentacles. The claws were much larger than those of any squid that had been discovered at that time.[3]

wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Stein_(FF-1065)

>>85636424
That camera sucks. How much does it take to set up for an expedition just to have the camera turn like shit.

>>85640005
muh dick

>>85642798
So they are cannibals.

>>85640005
a sperm whale

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>>85645715
>we prefer 'Cachalot', thank you very much

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>>85636028
>tfw your giantess fantasies could've been a reality if you were born as a sea creature

>>85636395
>>85636351
>>85636028
Because its fake. There is no evidence. It's just speculation.
>However, such scars are not necessarily of squid origin and may instead represent fungal growths or bite marks, with sea lampreys (Petromyzon marinus) being one possible source (Wood, 1982:193). Even in the case of genuine giant squid sucker marks it is possible that subsequent skin growth has enlarged them well beyond their original dimensions
That's the truth.

Go take a college course instead of watching tv shows.

>>85646004
That's literally what I said you fucking retard.

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>>85645903
Jdimsa