Editing Squid (section)

===In literature and art===
[[File:20000 squid holding sailor.jpg|thumb|upright|Giant squid-like [[sea monster]], by [[Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville|Alphonse de Neuville]] to illustrate [[Jules Verne]]'s ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas]]'', 1870]]

Giant squid have featured as [[sea monster|monsters of the deep]] since classical times. Giant squid were [[Aristotle's biology|described by Aristotle]] (4th century BC) in his ''[[History of Animals]]''<ref>[[Aristotle]]. N.d. [http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/history_anim.mb.txt ''Historia animalium''].</ref> and [[Pliny the Elder]] (1st century AD) in his ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Natural History]]''.<ref name=Ellis>{{cite book |author-link=Richard Ellis (biologist) |author=Ellis, Richard |year=1999 |title=The Search for the Giant Squid |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-14-028676-2 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/e/ellis-squid.html<!--Chapter 1 'The Big Calamari' online-->}}</ref><ref>[[Pliny the Elder]]. n.d. ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Naturalis historia]]''.</ref> The [[Gorgon]] of [[Greek mythology]] may have been inspired by squid or octopus, the animal itself representing the severed head of [[Medusa]], the beak as the protruding tongue and fangs, and its tentacles as the snakes.<ref>{{cite book |url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=OnHO4orvz18C}} |title=Medusa:Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon |last=Wilk |first=Stephen R. |year=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-988773-6}}</ref> The six-headed sea monster of the ''[[Odyssey]]'', [[Scylla]], may have had a similar origin. The Nordic legend of the kraken may also have derived from sightings of large cephalopods.<ref name=hogenboom>{{cite web |last1=Hogenboom |first1=Melissa |title=Are massive squid really the sea monsters of legend? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20141212-quest-for-the-real-life-kraken |publisher=BBC |access-date=27 July 2016 |date=12 December 2014}}</ref>

In literature, [[H. G. Wells]]' short story "[[The Sea Raiders]]" featured a man-eating squid species ''Haploteuthis ferox''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wells |first1=H. G. |title=The Sea Raiders |url=http://www.online-literature.com/wellshg/2872/ |publisher=The Literature Network |access-date=12 December 2018 |date=1896}}</ref> The [[science fiction]] writer [[Jules Verne]] told a tale of a [[kraken]]-like monster in his 1870 novel ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas]]''.<ref name=hogenboom/>