Giant squid (genus Architeuthis) is a large, deep ocean dwelling squid that can grow up to 13 meters (43 feet) naturally.

Japanese blogger Piyohiko, suspicious of the photo, investigated the image online and quickly debunked it. He searched for images of a giant squid on Google and found the original giant squid photo

This fake image of giant squid has been circulating widely on social media across many languages.

Photo of a giant squid posted on Xinhua News. The photo was taken by Enrique Talledo , who specializes in documenting the ocean

He noted that the spectators of the giant squid image coincide with those of the photo below, uploaded to 4thmedia.org in 2011

Starving the Squid

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The varieties landed are tuna, bonito, mackerel, squid, shark, lobster and shrimp.

Strong lamps, up to 5000 W each, are used to attract the squid.

Originally found on Lightly Braised Turnip, which appears to be a satire news website, the photo was accompanied by the description that a giant squid was discovered on California coast and scientists suspect radioactive gigantism , blaming the Fukushima nuclear accident for the existence of the large sea creature.

Again, another plug for the animals in the ocean, Vibrio fischeri lives in this squid.

These are squid. Now males, when they fight, if they're really aggressive, they turn white.

Central Asia s Waking Giant

Bingo! Now I'm told that's not just a squid phenomenon with males, but I don't know.

And by taking giant mirrors and here she's taking giant mirrors and pulling them into the dirt.

As the squid are caught they are transferred by chutes to the processing plant of the vessel.

This is something that my people at SQUID Labs are working on at the moment, called electronic rope.

Looks like many people believed the news of a squid growing enormous due to radiation and became anxious.

The Rise of an Insecure Giant

Richard Preston on the giant trees

Europe s Small Steps and Giant Leaps

A giant Nshima pot, Zambia 2008.

Giant pandas live only in China.

The Japanese giant salamander ( Andrias japonicus ) is endemic to Japan, where it is known as , literally meaning giant pepper fish .

Tierney Thys swims with the giant sunfish

Peter Diamandis on our next giant leap

Nancy had never seen a giant panda.

We need to take a giant step.

And when a giant falls, many are hurt.

Indeed it throws up giant sparks like castles ,

But only one story is about a giant crocodile!

The President tree is the name of a giant sequoia located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in the United States, east of Visalia, California.

Reaching into his pocket, Dima pulled out a giant briefcase.

Dr. Boyce, at the University of Chicago, published an article in the Journal of Geology this past year determining that Prototaxites was a giant fungus, a giant mushroom.

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RIP to Literary giant Austin Clarke who died today in Toronto.

Yet, as China takes minuscule steps forward, Russia takes giant steps backward.

In 1995 women gathered in Beijing and took a giant step forward.

Right now, I m just coming down on this gorgeous, big, giant manta ray.

There's basically a giant pathway in the sky between London and New York.

The retail giant Wal Mart is driving emissions reduction throughout its supply chain.

As a giant, the Sun will lose roughly 30 of its current mass.

This is late in the life of a star in its giant phase.

Now the bacteria are dilute, that little hormone molecule is gone, so they're not making light but of course the squid doesn't care. It's asleep in the sand.

An older study, examining whales captured by the New Zealand whaling fleet in the Cook Strait region, found a 1.69 1 ratio of squid to fish by weight.