A one-foot-long baby squid was spotted swimming in the waters around the South Sandwich islands. The footage is unprecedented ...

The colossal squid was first described in 1925 based on specimens from the stomach of a commercially hunted sperm whale. A century later, an international voyage captured the first confirmed video of ...

Jeaneth Larsen Mitchell, South Dakota No. It’s impossible to count such deep-dwelling creatures, but their number can be extrapolated from the number of sperm whales (the squid’s primary ...

Scientists proved that the sea still holds some big mysteries after capturing footage of the colossal squid — the largest ...

Colossal squid are known to be elusive and likely avoid the bright and loud research equipment used underwater.

Other animals feed on baby colossal squids “but the sperm whale is the only species known to take adults.” Researchers with Schmidt Ocean Institute also encountered another rarely seen squid ...

Since its discovery in 1925, only eight adult specimens have been reported, severely limiting scientists’ ability to research ...

in a “rare” sighting, a sperm whale was observed swimming into the ... While traveling far below the surface, they hunt for squid, skates, sharks and other bottom-dwelling species.

A ghostly, transparent deep-sea squid suddenly appeared on the screen ... Their “most significant predator” is the sperm whale. “Writers have often imagined that this species engages ...