The specimen's mantle is 2.5 metres long, larger than any adult giant squid, he added. What really sets the aggressive creature apart are its two, large beak and the enormous hooks arming its ...

Adding to the centenarian celebrations, Te Papa has just been named TripAdvisor’s top tourist attraction in New Zealand, ...

August marks a century since the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) was first named by the scientific community in 1925. Te Papa is home to the world’s only complete specimen on public ...

Since then, fishermen have filmed a few dying colossal squids at the ocean's surface. Scientists have found chewed-up colossal squid in whale and seabird stomachs. Nobody had confirmed a sighting in ...

While leveraging tourism for marine exploration is a logistical win-win, finding verified footage of a colossal squid is as hard as ever. Even the short clip of the above specimen isn’t confirmed, as ...

A rare and dangerous squid with eyes the size of dinner plates and scores of razor-sharp hooks to snag its prey has been caught by fishermen off the coast of Antarctica - and the 150kg specimen ...

These beaks were tiny and thin, ranging in length from 1.23 to 19.32 millimeters, with an average length of 3.87 millimeters, about 6 percent of the size of the only previously known fossil squid ...

The squid's lower beak measures around 40 centimetres across, while other beaks have been found - usually in the stomach of predator sperm whales - measuring up to 49 centimetres.

Benjamin Erwin recounts the moment he accidentally recorded the first confirmed footage of the rare colossal squid while piloting a vessel near the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.