Squid are some of the most powerful hunters of the deep. We spoke with a marine expert to examine the habits of these ...

The modern world was alerted to the existence of the colossal squid when parts of one that had been eaten, including two arms, turned up in the stomach of a sperm whale in 1925. It has continued ...

An endangered sperm whale found dead on the Oregon coast was struck by a vessel. The whale will remain on the beach to ...

And so sperm whales actually are one of our best sources of information for colossal squid, because it makes up the vast majority ... We actually don’t know very much about what they eat themselves.

Credit: ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute The elusive colossal squid has finally been caught ... its arms were found in the stomach of a sperm whale during the winter of 1924-1925.

even though we’ve known about colossal squid for a whole century. Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni as a species was first identified and named only because scientists found remnants of one inside the ...

Sperm whales, the squid’s main predator, can dive up to two kilometers (1.25 miles). Perhaps to help them avoid the whales, colossal squid have evolved the world’s largest eyes — bigger than ...

Other animals feed on baby colossal squids “but the sperm whale is the only species known to take adults.” Researchers with Schmidt Ocean Institute also encountered another rarely seen squid ...

A colossal squid has been captured on camera in its ... them catch prey and defend themselves against predators, such as sperm whales. These intriguing creatures were first discovered in 1925 ...