He is a leader in giant squid research. Giant squid look much like the smaller squid served in restaurants. But most giant squid are thirty to forty feet long, and some may grow to sixty feet. They can have eyes nearly as big as volleyballs and tentacles as long as a school bus. Giant squid live so deep in the oceans that no one has even seen one in its natural habitat.
Scientists get much of their information by examining dead specimens.
Throughout the world, only about one hundred dead or dying giant squid have been found. Since most of them are badly damaged, one squid may give just a few clues. Scientists put the clues together like the pieces of a puzzle. When the giant hunter gets close to its prey its tentacles shoot out and snatch the victim, gripping it with large suckers ringed with sharp barbs called teeth. The tentacles draw the prey into the mouth, with help from the eight arms.