Museo del Calamar Gigante
Museo del Calamar Gigante is a natural history museum located in Luarca, Asturias, Spain.
Museum logo that adorned the façade of the original building (2010–2014)
Giant squid on display at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.—one of two specimens loaned to the museum by CEPESMA, and one of the few publicly exhibited males worldwide
Giant squid (Architeuthis dux)
Giant squid (Architeuthis dux)
The giant squid is a species of deep-ocean dwelling squid in the family Architeuthidae. It can grow to a tremendous size, offering an example of abyssal gigantism: recent estimates put the maximum size at around 12–13 m (39–43 ft) for females and 10 m (33 ft) for males, from the posterior fins to the tip of the two long tentacles. The mantle of the giant squid is about 2 m long, and the length of the squid excluding its tentacles rarely exceeds 5 m (16 ft). Claims of specimens measuring 20 m (66 ft) or more have not been scientifically documented.
Tentacular club of Architeuthis
A portion of sperm whale skin with giant squid sucker scars
The beak of a giant squid, surrounded by the buccal mass
A giant squid specimen measuring over 4 m (13 ft) without its two long feeding tentacles
