My science Wednesday posting will feature squids.  There are  over 300 species , and the types we eat in the USA are the market, longfin inshore and shortfin version, most commonly found off California, Cape Cod, Rhode Island and North Carolina.  They are typically a foot long.  Calamari is the Italian word for squid. Squids: Range in size from the tiny pygmy squid at 0.175 grams to the largest invertebrate in the world. The  kraken , adopted by the Seattle NHL team in 2021, is a sea monster, first mentioned in 1700 by sailors between Norway and Iceland, and no doubt was a legendary giant squid, for the largest octopus lives in the north Pacific Ocean, and is said to grow to  30 feet and 600 pounds .   Here is a  National Geographic  video  showing this octopus wriggling through a passageway the size of a quarter.   While  NG  is credible, I find both a 600 pound octopus, with the ability to do this, unbelievable.   There are rumors about a 600-pound octopus called  King Octopus  that

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