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 ...
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 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 ...
From the parasitic mating techniques of some anglerfish to vibrant bioluminescent displays by deep-sea squid, here are two of the most interesting ways the ocean keeps life alive at her depths.
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 ...
The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) captured stunning footage of the strawberry squid during a deep sea dive. Check out the video above for a close-up of this sea creature that is ...
A baited robotic lander lured a magnapinna — a rarely seen bigfin squid — and allowed researchers from Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre and Inkfish to film this cryptic footage.