>Read somewhere that the big mystery carcass found washed ashore in Chile has
>been determined to be a large Architeuthis.

People are ignorant. Whales, as mammals, have red meat and look just
like beef; squid have white, smooth & rubbery; giant  fish (ie
sharks) have white and segmented. It is DEAD EASY to tell what you
have in front of you if it is a mass from a broken-up animal.

If it's a squid, it's a real monster... even the biggest known
couldn't produce a solid mass of flesh the size of the one in the
image. But there is a recently-discovered genus (can't remember the
name), possibly an ommastrephid, which is considerably larger then
Architeuthis... who knows how large it gets?

Also the Big A is a flaccid slow beast, ideal prey for spermwhales.
The new genus is a muscular and highly-active predator, and only a
foolish whale would attack one. It may be responsible for reports of
very large squid overtaking modern ships and attacking the hulls,
Architeuthis couldn't do this.