The strawberry squid (Histioteuthis heteropsis) is much smaller than the giant squid ... the strawberry squid a formidable hunter in the deep sea. The cephalopod’s right eye is small and ...

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 ...

a phenomenon seen in other deep-sea creatures like the giant squid and the Japanese spider crab. It lives from 500 to 7,000 feet (152 to 2,133 meters) deep, from the lower epipalegic (sunlight ...

The Kraken, the mythical beast of the sea, is real. Giant squid live in the dark depths of the ocean, and very little is known about them to this day. Until 2005, no scientist had ever ...

The suckers are used to grab and drag prey. Giant squid’s reddish colour provides camouflage in the deep sea because the only available light is blue. Red pigment absorbs blue light so the squid ...

A giant congregation of crabs filmed ... lured a magnapinna — a rarely seen bigfin squid — and allowed researchers from Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre and Inkfish to film this cryptic ...

Goblin sharks are generally rare, deep-water predatory species classified as living fossils. Its ancestral ownliness reaches ...

Giant squids are one of the largest invertebrates known and live in the deep sea ... he spotted the large squid thrashing its tentacles around near the surface of the sea. He quickly phoned ...

The ocean holds many bizarre deep-sea monsters. As you dive 140 meters ... Another hundred and 50 meters down, we meet the vampire squid. It has bioluminescent organs called photophores that ...

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 ...