The world's largest invertebrate remained hidden from humanity until a tantalising glimpse 100 years ago. But it would be ...
The scientists were searching for the colossal squid, an evasive cephalopod that ... would stop by and watch brittle stars and other deep-sea life captured by an underwater camera.
With water covering 71 percent of the Earth’s surface, sea creatures ... in the deep ocean, making them a challenge to study ...
Giant and colossal squid have the largest eyes in ... so the squid appears to be black and inconspicuous. Female deep sea squid are believed to store sperm around their arms and head so they ...
1. The colossal squid is the planet’s largest squid, mollusc, and invertebrate (by mass) -- yet it isn’t without its own ...
The squid was eating a hooked toothfish when it was hauled from the deep by the vessel San Aspiring. "It is likely that it is the first intact adult male colossal squid to ever be successfully ...
Colossal squid sometimes inhabit the world of fiction and imagination, but have rarely been seen in daylight. It was a calm morning in Antarctica's remote Ross Sea, during the season when the sun ...
The heads of deep-sea sharks leer toothily from the interior of huge jars. Other jars contain bigger remnants of recovered colossal squid. Ablett even frees some of these from the tanks for ...