Now Widder is the first person to capture footage of a giant squid in its natural habitat. But even she admits that the grainy black-and-white footage, by itself, would have been a little unsatisfying ...

The mysterious giant squid has rarely ever been seen by humans, let alone photographed or filmed swimming in its natural habitat. Most of what we know about giant squids has come from fishermen ...

Marine biologist Dr Edith Widder was inside a submersible searching for bioluminescence in the ocean depths when she saw a giant squid as big as a two story house (R) ...

Such hesitation would be a shame, however, if it stops anyone from picking up marine biologist Edith Widder’s enthralling new memoir, “Below the Edge of Darkness.” ...

Edith Widder details her life and work involving the creatures who light up the deep, and assesses humans' mismanagement of the oceans. She's a captivating storyteller, not simply a pioneering ...

Edith Widder wisely leaves us to make of this what we will. Her main focus is the rod protruding from the female’s upper lip, which functions like a fish version of a flashlight.

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And there have been many, such as the glowing sucker octopus, which she discovered in 1997, and the giant squid, which she was the first to capture on video in its natural habitat in 2012 (using a ...

To date, only one scientist, Dr. Edith Widder of the Ocean Research & Conservation Association, has repeatedly caught a live giant squid on camera.

A rare giant squid measuring 10 feet in length was found washed ashore, largely intact, on the western coast of Japan, according to a local press report.