For decades, scientists and sea explorers have mounted costly expeditions to hunt down and photograph the giant squid, a legendary monster with eyes the size of dinner plates and a nightmarish ...

Fishermen trawling for swordfish caught one of the sea's great enigmas: a giant squid 16 feet long and with black eyes the size of apples. A Spanish vessel operating off the Azores in the mid ...

A fishing charter off the coast of Hawaii encountered a rare and beautiful sea creature this week: a 7-foot-long giant squid. The creature was dead, floating motionless with the bulb of its head ...

A woman and her husband experienced a rare sighting of a fully intact giant squid on June 7, while walking on Golden Mile Beach in Brittania Bay, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. A ...

It’s the second time in Widder’s career and the first time in US waters that a giant squid had been captured on film over 750 meters underwater.

Last week, a giant squid gave the internet the gift of being caught on footage and shared on social media, providing a rare glimpse into the often mysterious depths of earth's oceans. The sighting ...

The only thing researchers know about these mysterious creatures' mating habits is that female giant squid are sometimes found with large sperm packets known as spermatangia embedded in their muscles.

The mysterious and mythical giant squid has never been spotted alive in the deep sea -- until now. A team from Japan's National Science Museum has captured footage of a giant squid in its natural ...

Earlier this year, scientists announced they’d finally captured video footage of Architeuthis—or kraken, or just the giant squid if you prefer. In this video, Edith Widder, once of the ...

Researchers in Northern California are dissecting what appears to be a rare giant squid found this week near Monterey Bay. The squid was 25 feet long and had tentacles as thick as a human leg.

However, giant squid have been found in the stomachs of sperm whales that have beached on the Gulf shoreline, she said.

Photographs that purportedly show a giant squid carcass that washed up on an Indonesia beach actually show a dead whale.