In the cold, dark water surrounding Antarctica lives an animal whose eyes alone can measure more than a foot across. The colossal squid, the heaviest invertebrate known to science, carries the largest ...

For over a century, the colossal squid has been one of the deep sea’s most slippery enigmas. Known mostly through bits and pieces found in whale bellies and a handful of dying adults spotted by ...

Somewhere in the frigid, sunless waters surrounding Antarctica, a creature drifts with eyes larger than any other animal on ...

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 colossal squid has been caught on camera for the first time in the deep sea by an international team of researchers steering a remotely operated submersible. The sighting was announced Tuesday by ...

An international team of scientists and crew on board Schmidt Ocean Institute's research vessel Falkor (too) was the first to film the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) in its natural ...

Researchers recently captured the first-ever confirmed video of the colossal squid in its natural habitat. ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute A team of researchers has just revealed the first ...

One hundred years after its discovery, one of the largest, most elusive mollusks has been filmed alive in its natural environment for the first time. On a recent expedition near the Antarctic South ...