Until now, all knowledge about this usually ginormous animal had been pieced together from those early sperm whale stomach segments, and a handful of deceased colossal squid accidentally caught by ...

In the darkness of the South Atlantic Ocean, researchers captured for the first time footage of a live colossal squid ( ...

An international team captures the first deep-sea footage of a colossal squid — a juvenile near the South Sandwich Islands.

Jeaneth Larsen Mitchell, South Dakota No. It’s impossible to count such deep-dwelling creatures, but their number can be extrapolated from the number of sperm whales (the squid’s primary ...

That started to change with mounting clues: squid beaks and body parts discovered in the stomachs of sperm whales, and occasional dead specimens snagged by deep-sea fishing vessels. These rare finds ...

The first verified sighting of a colossal squid alive in its habitat shows that it's not nearly as ugly as the one in Te Papa ...

A ghostly, transparent deep-sea squid suddenly appeared on the screen ... Their “most significant predator” is the sperm whale. “Writers have often imagined that this species engages ...

Sperm whales, the planet’s largest toothed predator, have incredibly complex social structures and cultural practices. During a recent WWF-backed research expedition around Greece’s northwestern ...

also known as the Squid Galaxy, which sits 45 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus (The Whale). The designation Messier 77 comes from the galaxy's place in the famous catalog ...

Other animals feed on baby colossal squids “but the sperm whale is the only species known to take adults.” Researchers with Schmidt Ocean Institute also encountered another rarely seen squid ...