Outside and Inside Giant Squid
(Outside and Inside (Walker &
Company)) by Sandra Markle
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Explore the eerie world of giant squid, a creature never yet seen alive!
Plunge into the darkest depths of the ocean and discover some of the
strangest, most mysterious creatures on earth: giant squid. These amazing
animals have eyes as large as volleyballs, can be as long as a city bus,
and may weigh up to a ton. Without living specimens, scientists have only
been able to study the dead bodies of giant squid that have washed
ashore or been found by fishermen and compare them with the
Architeuthis dux’s nearly 500 smaller relatives. These mysterious
behemoths are just as strange as more commonly seen squid, only their
oddities are giant-sized. With beaks, suckers, three hearts, eight arms, and
rubbery bodies made almost entirely of muscle, squid are among the most
fascinating inhabitants of the ocean’s deep. With rare and remarkable

photographs and crystalline prose, Sandra Markle illuminates the world of
these incredible creatures.
Personal Review: Outside and Inside Giant Squid (Outside and
Inside (Walker & Company)) by Sandra Markle
As a longtime fan of cephalopods in general and squids in particular, I was
very impressed by this book. It's quite good at being accessible to readers
of a fairly young age while not "dumbing down" the science at all. It has a
variety of color plates, both from giant squid dissections (from the lab of
Clyde Roper, one of the world's foremost experts on the giant squid) and
from pictures of other squids in their natural environment. (Until recently,
no one had ever seen or photographed a giant squid in its environment at
all, so showing smaller squids is really the best way to illustrate these
amazing animals... and Ms. Markle is careful to describe which pictures
are giant squids and which are smaller ones.)
This is a great book to get for a budding marine biologist... I expect it's
interesting enough to hold the attention of a lot of kids, but it will
particularly appeal to those who are excited to visit the Monterey Bay
Aquarium or watch Jaques Cousteau documentaries.
It's important to note that this is really a biology book, and it does show
photographs of dissected animals. I don't find it disturbing at all, but for
someone extremely squeamish, that could be an issue.
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