Generally uncommon animal sightings are often seen as harbingers of natural disasters. For the second time in five weeks, the body of a giant squid has been found washed ashore in Japan, causing many Japanese netizens to worry about whether an earthquake or other natural disaster is about to occur.
As early as February 28 this year, Japanese people have been found in Tottori Prefecture, the coast of a giant squid carcass, and on the 2nd of this month, in Niigata City, Silkfish River City, Himekawa Port and another giant squid carcass. Niigata City Aquarium received a report and sent staff to salvage work, but due to the size of the squid and heavy and huge, the staff spent a lot of effort in handling, and even once difficult to put the squid’s tentacles into the bag of the handling frame.
The aquarium later announced that the salvaged squid was 2.4 meters long and weighed 106.6 kilograms, and the staff was reportedly very surprised to see such a huge squid after arriving at the scene. The aquarium said that such a giant king squid is a rare sight, and compared to the previous specimens on display, this is “almost no chance, without the use of chemical treatment, so that these deep-sea species on display”.
The museum will freeze the squid and then arrange a two-day limited exhibition, and allow visitors to touch the squid through the tape and take pictures, hoping to let people get in touch with this species that lives in the deep sea.
According to research, the squid is the second largest known invertebrate and the longest mollusk in existence. The largest squid found so far is a male, 13 meters long, while the largest female is 10 meters long. The king squid lives only 4 to 6 years and is found mainly in the deep waters of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, ranging from 300 to 3100 meters deep.
Although humans are aware of the existence of this species, they are rarely witnessed by humans until 2004 when they were successfully photographed inhabiting the seabed, hence many myths and legends will call the king squid a siren.
Because of this, two months in a row found squid dead on the surface of the sea, so many Japanese netizens are worried about whether a disaster is about to happen. In 2016, a magnitude 3 earthquake occurred the next day after the discovery of a squid body in Akita Prefecture, Japan.
And on December 17 last year, people also found the carcass of a giant squid on the beach in Kyoto, and then four days later, a 6.3 magnitude felt earthquake occurred nearby, with a depth of 10 km. But afterwards some experts stressed that there is no scientific evidence to prove that the carcass of the squid is related to the earthquake, and some netizens said that it may be the problem of marine pollution, so that marine life frequently die.
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