A 30-foot-long giant squid that washed ashore in Spain on Tuesday had beachgoers astonished the cephalopod was still intact. Enrique Talledo A 30-foot-long giant squid that washed ashore in Spain on ...

For centuries, tales of sea monsters turned sailors’ fear of the unknown into legends of giant tentacled beasts. On March 9, ...

Scientists have recorded the first footage of a giant squid hunting in the wild. The elusive creatures are notoriously difficult to film, as their habitat is housands of feet under the sea, where it's ...

Architeuthis dux, better known as the giant squid, is likely the inspiration for the legendary kraken. The Granger Collection, New York There are few monsters left in the world. As our species has ...

In the following post I will enumerate the many ways in which current science repeatedly demonstrates that giant squids are awesomesauce. Awesomesauce: (n) Something that is more awesome than awesome.

To get you ready for the awesomesauce that is KRAKEN Day(!!), it is only appropriate to open with Dr. M’s Epic giant squid post from earlier this year. Enjoy :) In the following post I will enumerate ...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- How did the monstrous giant squid - reaching school-bus size, with eyes as big as dinner plates and tentacles that can snatch prey 10 yards away -- get so scarily big? Today, ...

A giant squid, whose oversized eyes and gargantuan blob of a body make it look more mythical than real beast, washed ashore Tuesday (Oct. 1) at La Arena beach in the Spanish community of Cantabria.

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U.S. scientists accidentally caught a giant squid in the Gulf of Mexico last week, the first spotted in those waters since 1954. But perhaps we should be more careful about how we treat this ...

It's estimated to be just over 12 feet long, and giant squid are thought to grow over three times that size. A giant squid made its way into Japan's Toyama Bay on Christmas Eve, treating onlookers to ...