A dead giant squid washed ashore at a beach in South Africa earlier this month, offering fans of the elusive cephalopod a rare opportunity to see photographs of an intact specimen. The discovery ...

A rarely seen giant squid normally found deep beneath the ocean's surface has been discovered dead on a beach in Cape Town, South Africa, just months after another washed up six miles away.

Who doesn’t love a bit of calamari? Humans have been eating squid for quite some time, but if we were around a few million ...

Colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) are bigger than even the famous giant squid (Architeuthis ... The species was first discovered after two of its arms were found in the stomach of ...

A photo that has been shared online for years allegedly shows a giant squid washed up on ... Jack and Matthew Aplin — discovered the squid while driving along a track on the south coast of ...

A rarely seen giant squid described as an "amazing ghost creature" has been found washed up on a beach. The huge creature was discovered washed up on the shore of Scarborough Beach in South Africa ...

Legends about gargantuan squid have existed for millennia, with photos confirming their existence nearly 150 years ago. But what is the largest squid in the world? Depending on how you measure ...

Giant squid are cephalopods ... which was very exciting to be able to observe.” Scientists also discovered that giant squids don’t wait passively for food to drift near them, but actively ...

Aboard te Falkor (too) research vessel, a 35-day trek to the South Sandwich Islands led to the discovery of new marine ...

It's without parallel in the oceans," said Dr O'Shea, whose work is sponsored by Discovery Channel. The specimen, which was caught in the past few weeks in the Ross Sea, has a mantle length of 2.5 ...

In his dispatch, Mr. Harvey described the discovery of a record-setting 16-metre giant squid struggling to escape after it was caught in the ebb tide off Glovers Harbour on Nov. 2, 1878.