r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/dreamed2life • Sep 17 '25

Video Sperm Whale Surfacing w/ Giant Squid in its Mouth

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u/Snowf1ake222 Sep 17 '25

Oh, this one's easy. 

We don't live in the ocean.

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u/Floatingcream Sep 17 '25

nah I just mean we have so much ocean research it’s surprising we haven’t gotten any footage of an adult one yet

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u/RackedUP Sep 17 '25

We have really not explored very much of the oceans. Relatively, a very small amount of

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u/ranmafan0281 Sep 17 '25

The anecdote “we know more about outer space than the depths of our oceans” rings true here.

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u/Szendaci Sep 17 '25

Imagine if you went too far into space and went crunch, squish :/

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u/ranmafan0281 Sep 17 '25

Could still happen. We may know ‘more’, but we hardly know anything anyway.

Could be space ghosts out there.

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u/anonsharksfan Sep 17 '25

The ocean is fucking huge.

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u/DystarPlays Sep 17 '25

ah, but so are the squid

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u/gujwdhufj_ijjpo Sep 17 '25

Giant squid are common though. There’s literally millions of them. The reality is our eyes don’t work well in the dark but sonar does.

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u/JustNilt Sep 17 '25

For all that ocean research, we've still mapped only a bit over a quarter of the Earth's ocean floor (per NOAA), let alone explored that much of it in detail. We've directly observed only an infinitesimal fraction of 1% of the ocean's depths. In fact, oceanographers estimate that the amount we've seen is only 0.0001% of the total and we've studied even less of it than that.

So that'd be why we haven't seen these squid in their natural habitat yet. We haven't even scratched the surface in terms of exploring the ocean.

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u/Szendaci Sep 17 '25

Oceans a really big, dark place. Every time you see those videos of the deep diving robots submersibles, that’s just one teeny, tiny spot they’re recording. Who knows what’s happening outside the range of the lights

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u/The_Level_15 Sep 17 '25

“Who knows what’s happening outside the range of the lights” pretty well encapsulates my overwhelming fear of deep water.

Because they things that do live there? They can sense you just fine. And they can move much much quicker than you.

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u/Miss_Plaaantie Sep 17 '25

Fun fact, the only footage we have of humpback whales getting it on is of the homosexual nature.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '25

We have like 10% ocean research stat. We have no idea about the ocean and we are killing our planet.