Two new species of pygmy squid have been found in the subtropical waters of a Japanese island. These cephalopods, which are smaller than paper clips, find refuge in the coral beds and seagrass ...

Some squids get giant in size, but have you ever wondered how small some squid species are? Squids vary in size based on ...

The Firefly Squid (Watasenia scintillans) inhabits the Western Pacific and is famously found in Toyama Bay, Japan. The 3-inch long creatures employ ...

The team of researchers discovered a large number of squid fossils from rocks of the late Cretaceous period using a technique ...

Countless biologists are reaching out to one Japanese aquarium after a live mammoth squid was discovered to have washed ashore on a national beach.. The approximate 9-foot, 8-inch squid was ...

A new technique of examination, which digitized cretaceous rocks, led to the discovery of the oldest known squid specimen.

Dec. 21 (UPI) --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. Kyoto Shimbun reported a ...

100-Million-Year-Old Rock Reveals 40 Never-Before-Seen Squid Species. Michelle Starr. Thu ... paleontologists in Japan and Germany have discovered a huge number of fossilized cephalopod beaks in ...

The oval squid species the team was studying had never shown evidence of color changing with its environment. According to Michael Vecchione, an invertebrate zoologist at the Smithsonian ...