At first glance, a squid resembles “Kraken,” a sea monster, but a closer look reveals an even more magical creature that changes colors and even body patterns, shooting water spurts from its ...

When feeding on the surface of the ocean, they collectively gulp down—and later throw up if they aren’t killed by them—thousands of plastic cigarette lighters mistaken for squid. Behind the ...

Researchers captured the first confirmed video of a colossal squid swimming in its natural habitat—almost 2,000 feet deep.

Researchers recently captured the first live footage of a colossal quid in its natural habitat, thousands of feet under the ...

A colossal squid has been captured on camera for the first time in the deep sea by an international team of researchers ...

Scientists could see chromatophores on the juvenile, those color-changing sacs found on other glass squid. That means “it almost certainly can switch back and forth between being completely ...

By Elizabeth Preston In March, Kat Bolstad returned from an Antarctic expedition where she had used a new camera system specially built to search for the elusive colossal squid. No one had ...

One is a newly described species, Nybelina enterika ("enter" is Greek and refers to the intestine, "ika" is the common name for squid in Japanese), and the other is an unknown member of the genus ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In the darkness of the South Atlantic Ocean, researchers captured for the first time footage of a live colossal squid ...

For a century, scientists have only speculated about what a baby colossal squid looks like — now they finally got a chance to see one up close. A group of scientists onboard the Schmidt Ocean ...