For centuries, stories of sea monsters like the Kraken have captivated imaginations, with sailors claiming to have seen ...

One of the most spellbinding of these animals is the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni). When full-grown, this creature is about as long as a bus and weighs nearly 1,100 pounds.

The squid filmed was a juvenile about 1 foot in length at a depth of almost 2,000 feet in the South Atlantic Ocean. Full-grown adult colossal squids, which scientists recovered from the bellies of ...

The colossal squid, scientifically named Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, is the world’s largest invertebrate, growing to a maximum of about 10 metres in length and reaching a mass of nearly half a ...