I once read about a massive lump of rotting flesh that was washed up on a beach in Chile. Experts were guessing it might be some new species, but it was just decomposing whale, where the skeleton had fallen out of it leaving the floating blob 'o' blubber.
The idea that it was some sort of cephalopod made me search for giant squid information. I read that they are fairly passive in their feeding habits, hanging at 45° deep in the ocean, waiting for poor fishies to stumble into their tentacles.
Then I read about an even bigger squid - the Colossal Squid - which is quite active in its feeding, known to chase Patagonian Toothfish on the surface of the water!
"Patagonian Toothfish"?? It turns out that this is another name for the Chilean Sea Bass, a recently fashionable fish on our platters, but one that takes several years to mature and is consequently in danger of extinction from overfishing (that'll teach it to be tasty).
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