A photo that has been shared online for years allegedly shows a giant squid washed up on a beach. In early January 2025, an X user posted the photograph at the top of a thread supposedly showing the ...

where the water temperature is 4 to 10 degrees. But this time, the giant squid was spotted at a depth of around 5 meters, where the water temperature was about 13 degrees. “I think the squid ...

The strawberry squid (Histioteuthis heteropsis) is much smaller than the giant squid ... The squid floats along the water upside down with one eye aimed at the ocean floor and the other looking ...

Researchers at the museum undertook a painstaking process to preserve the giant creature, which is now on display in a 9m long glass tank immersed in a mix of salt water and formalin. The squid ...

Keith Lyons, senior media adviser for the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research in New Zealand, confirmed via email that, at the time of the photo, an external expert identified the ...

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 ...

Squid use a jet propulsion system to power themselves through the water and have three hearts that pump blue blood. Giant and colossal squid have the largest eyes in the animal kingdom.

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.

Keith Lyons, senior media adviser for the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research ... an external expert identified the species as a giant squid with the scientific name Architeuthis ...