Cryptozoologicon - Super-giant squid

In response to this blog post:

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I decided to make a drawing of the hypothetical super-giant, ship-attacking squid that Bernard Heuvelmans theorized from various sightings and accounts. It should be said that this one is based upon one of his more conservative estimates of about 150 feet (45.72 metres). Heuvelmans made even more extreme estimates of up to 300 feet long, wow! Initially, Heuvelmans suggested that these were unrecorded sizes of Architeuthis, the giant squid, but later seems to have suggested that it was an unknown species.

The issue of the fast growth and short lifespan in squid is a problem, because theoretically, a fast-growing, short-lived squid (all squids are short lived, they die after spawning) could not grow this big. With the Humbolt Squid's 1 millimetre per-day growth rate, a 45 metre squid would take, logically 45 000 days to reach full size, that is, 123 years!

So we can all see that this sort of squid runs contrary to the biology of even the biggest squid. Nevertheless, I should really turn this into a Cyptozoologicon entry (and I will), as soon as I can figure out an excuse for a squid that lives for a century or longer...

Edit: Redid the drawing, because I realized the suckers were wrong.