In the cold, dark waters surrounding Antarctica lives an animal so elusive that scientists have examined only a handful of ...

For more than a century after science first named it, the colossal squid was known almost entirely from fragments: beaks recovered from the stomachs of whales, damaged bodies hauled up in fishing nets ...

A colossal squid has been captured on camera in its natural habitat for the first time in the 100 years since its discovery — and it’s a baby. The squid, measuring about one foot in length, was seen ...

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 ...

A one-foot-long juvenile squid was spotted swimming in the waters around the South Sandwich islands. The footage is unprecedented because the mysterious creatures are so difficult to capture on camera ...

This is the first confirmed live observation of the colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, in its natural habitat. The team on Schmidt Ocean Institute's Research Vessel Falkor captured footage of ...