The giant squid is a rare and elusive creature, once thought only to exist in stories of sea monsters called krakens. But in 2004, the Museum was offered a nearly complete specimen caught at a depth ...

Off the coast of Mexico, a female deep-sea squid with giant eggs tucked within her tentacles has been spotted during an expedition to the Gulf of California. A team of scientists utilized a ...

Tom Picot had evidence of a giant squid, a creature long dismissed as tall tales of sailors at sea. Harvey paid the boy ...

There is something I want to show you that is often invisible or unnoticed when darkness falls deep in the ocean ... species of jumbo, giant, and colossal squid have been mostly unknowable.

Giant squid (Architeuthis dux) were first classified by Western ... Its skeleton was displayed in the Fantastic Beasts TM: The Wonder of Nature exhibition. Although deep-sea-dwelling, plankton-eating ...

Giant squids are one of the largest invertebrates known and live in the deep sea ... he spotted the large squid thrashing its tentacles around near the surface of the sea. He quickly phoned ...

The suckers are used to grab and drag prey. Giant squid’s reddish colour provides camouflage in the deep sea because the only available light is blue. Red pigment absorbs blue light so the squid ...

Today, we believe that these tales about the legendary krakens were likely based on deep-sea giant squid. It is also thought that sailors often exaggerated their descriptions of these creatures.

Deep sea scientist Edie Widder who had been part of the science team to track down and film the first ever images of the giant squid from this very ship. Her ingenious invention, the e-jelly ...