For more than a century after science first named it, the colossal squid was known almost entirely from fragments: beaks recovered from the stomachs of whales, damaged bodies hauled up in fishing nets ...
Earlier this year, scientists trawling Antarctica’s remote Ross Sea hauled aboard a real life sea monster: a 770-pound colossal squid. The opportunity to examine these astonishing creatures is very ...
The colossal squid was first described in 1925 based on specimens from the stomach of a commercially hunted sperm whale. A century later, an international voyage captured the first confirmed video of ...
A one-foot-long juvenile squid was spotted swimming in the waters around the South Sandwich islands. The footage is unprecedented because the mysterious creatures are so difficult to capture on camera ...