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 ...

But it’s thought that colossal squid makes up at least 77 percent of a sperm whale’s diet. The epic battles between the colossal squid and the sperm whale show that when the sperm whale is ready for a ...

The Antarctic blue whale can weigh up to 400,000 pounds and stretches to 98 feet in length. The underwater call of the sperm whale ... rather than sight. They eat squid, octopus, fish, prawns ...

The first time scientists learned of the colossal squid was in 1925. Remains of the massive sea creature had been found inside a sperm whale’s stomach. Since then, only eight adult colossal ...

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 ...