Many of the known specimens were found in the stomach of sperm whales, whose diets may be 77 percent colossal squid. Only 12 complete specimens have been found, according to a 2015 study.
The animal was first described in 1925 from just two tentacles found in the stomach of a sperm whale: the colossal squid makes up three quarters of the diet of large sperm whales and there are ...