Artist Alice Shirley took one look at the Museum’s giant squid specimen and decided she had to draw it. Life size. Using fresh squid ink. Watch her unusual painting take shape. Giant squid were once ...

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 ...

Her ingenious invention, the e-jelly, which mimics the bioluminescent distress signal of a deep-sea jellyfish that is under attack, thereby enticing Humboldt squid ... of-the-art low-light camera ...