[discostu]

This brings up something I wonder about periodically. In the late 70s giant squids were a legend not yet accepted as fact. Only a couple of bodies had been recovered, nobody was sure what to make of them. They even had an "In Search of..." episode about them (given how far out on the fringe and often incorrect that show was tells you a lot about it). Somewhere inbetween then and now lots of giant squid bodies started showing up, it's totally accepted now, though nobody has seen any alive yet. So what happened inbetween? And why are dead giant squid suddenly common place?

[RightWhale]

If we're talking about giant squid that would rip apart a whaling ship or drown a whale as depicted in the frontispiece illustration of a Melville novel, then we still haven't seen one. All the same, this specimen is kind of large.

[Sundog]

Their primary food is the shark, and the sharks have been eradicated by fishing.

Their secondary food is the deep sea mammals such as small whales / dolphins / seals diving deeply, and they are gone too.

Cheers.

[Deguello]

This may be like the case of the state of Connecticut. Their official stance is that they don't have any Moose.

Every time one is hit by a vehicle, they say "well, we HAD one".