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A: According to National Geographic, the largest squid ever found measured 59 feet long and weighed about a ton. The squid was a giant squid, the largest of the more than 280 squid species found worldwide.
Squid are mollusks like clams and oysters but they have no shells on the outside of their bodies! They have a shell inside their bodies called a pen. There are about 375 species of squid. Squid have 10 arms. Two of their arms are longer than the other eight and are called tentacles. Squid range in size from under an inch to more than 60 feet in length! They have long, tubular bodies and little heads. Squid are very fast swimmers and use a kind of jet propulsion to move.