WATCH: Beautiful once in a lifetime "Kraken" squid lands on SA shores
A giant squid washes up on the shores of South Africa...
This is possibly one of the rarest sightings we have ever witnessed on our South African shores.
A giant "kraken" carcass has washed up on the rocky shore of Scarborough Beach in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday 16 August.
See the "flubber-gasting" footage of the giant squid below:
This isn't the first time we've seen massive sea creatures wash up on our shores. Remember the gigantic octopus that was also found earlier this year?
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This rare sighting displays a squid with "the largest eye of any animal".
According to News24, this majestic beast, which measured nearly 4.3 meters in length, was the second giant squid to crop up on a beach in the region this year.
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The giant squid was first found by dog-walkers early in the morning.
Tim Dee, an author from Bristol, UK, was birdwatching in the area and decided to go see the dead super squid after it was posted on a local community group earlier that day.
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“The movie Alien came to mind - those nested teeth in the centre of the monster’s head and here was that alien on the beach just beyond the bottom of my garden."
This wild find is undoubtedly one for the books.
Lest we forget the one-eyed squid that drenched the shores of Cape Town with it's googly eye and tenacious tentacles.
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Here's some more facts about the giant and colossal squids:
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Image courtesy of: Twitter
What's the difference between an octopus and a squid?
Octopuses have eight arms covered in suckers while squids have eight arms and two longer tentacles used to catch fish and shrimp in open-ocean waters.