Writer's Block: Annals of Animal Warfare
Nov. 15th, 2008 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Haha, it's not often there's a Writer's Block topic that I feel like I pretty much have to answer.
I bet on the shark. It's bigger: megalodon shark was something like 50-60 feet long, whereas the giant squid is about 33-43 feet if you measure all the way to the tips of the long feeding tentacles, so it's much less massive. And there's fossil evidence that megalodon sharks preyed on large whales, including sperm whales; modern sperm whales prey on giant squid. The squid's only chance would be to hide or escape, and given the shark's size it can probably dive at least as deep as the squid. It's possible the squid would be more maneuverable than the shark and would therefore be able to get away, but I very much doubt - if they're both healthy adults - that a giant squid could kill a giant shark.
Now I feel sorry for the poor squiddy :(
Haha, it's not often there's a Writer's Block topic that I feel like I pretty much have to answer.
I bet on the shark. It's bigger: megalodon shark was something like 50-60 feet long, whereas the giant squid is about 33-43 feet if you measure all the way to the tips of the long feeding tentacles, so it's much less massive. And there's fossil evidence that megalodon sharks preyed on large whales, including sperm whales; modern sperm whales prey on giant squid. The squid's only chance would be to hide or escape, and given the shark's size it can probably dive at least as deep as the squid. It's possible the squid would be more maneuverable than the shark and would therefore be able to get away, but I very much doubt - if they're both healthy adults - that a giant squid could kill a giant shark.
Now I feel sorry for the poor squiddy :(
