The colossal squid is the world's largest invertebrate, but the one in this video is a baby. The footage was captured by an underwater expedition near Antarctica. The colossal squid, a mysterious ...

Quick Take Sperm whales are the largest toothed whales and deep-diving predators, with a spermaceti organ used for sound ...

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 ...

Almost a century after the colossal squid was first discovered, a juvenile was spotted and filmed in its natural habitat last month. Crew members on board a research vessel in the South Atlantic Ocean ...

Deep beneath the ocean’s surface, where sunlight never reaches, a creature older than dinosaurs has quietly preserved secrets ...

Ancient mariners' tales of the terrifying Kraken, a colossal sea monster, have been scientifically linked to the elusive ...

NEW ORLEANS -- An elusive giant squid has made a rare on-camera appearance, delighting scientists on the prowl for the deep-sea creature that until relatively recently had largely escaped the eyes of ...

The vampire squid is a creature straight out of a gothic horror film. It lurks in the deep-sea abyss, cloaked in dark, webbed arms, its massive eyes glowing red or blue. The dramatic scientific name — ...

Beachgoers were stunned to find a giant squid that had washed ashore on a beach in South Africa's Western Cape province earlier this month. "It looked like a majestic prehistoric animal as I have ...

While modern octopuses have DNA that consistently gets reshuffled, resulting in some chromosomal mixing, the researchers ...