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Colossal squid

Length

up to 2.5 m (mantle (body) length of the two largest specimens measured at Te Papa (2003 and 2007); the 2007 squid's total length measured 4.2 m after its tentacles shrank)

Weight

470 to 495 kg (the 2007 specimen weighed 495 kg while still frozen with some ice; Te Papa estimates about 470 kg)

Lives in

Southern Ocean