The anglers fed one tentacle to a dog, according to some accounts; the other, measuring 19 feet in length, they carried to nearby St. John’s, to the home of minister and amateur naturalist Moses ...

The giant squid is a rare and elusive creature, once thought only to exist in stories of sea monsters called krakens. But in 2004, the Museum was offered a nearly complete specimen caught at a depth ...

Artist Alice Shirley took one look at the Museum’s giant squid specimen and decided she had to draw it. Life size. Using fresh squid ink. Watch her unusual painting take shape. Giant squid were once ...

Brooklyn-based Two-Man Giant Squid started off as an anonymous, experimental bedroom project by multi-instrumentalist ...

TOYOOKA, Hyogo Prefecture—Two scuba divers captured rare photos and video of a giant squid slowly plodding along off the coast here and unusually close to the surface. Giant squids are one of ...

Is the giant squid threatened with extinction? Jeaneth Larsen Mitchell, South Dakota No. It’s impossible to count such deep-dwelling creatures, but their number can be extrapolated from the ...

The last known giant squid (Architeuthis dux) to wash ashore near Cape Town showed up on Long Beach in Kommetjie, on April 30. That cephalopod measured roughly 3.5 meters long.