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

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.

Nearly a century after its initial discovery, scientists have captured footage of the colossal squid swimming in its natural deep sea environment for the first time, shedding new light on the elusive ...

Humans spend nearly their entire lives on land, but the Earth we call home is really a water world. With 71 percent of the Earth’s surface covered by water, this expansive ecosystem has been difficult ...

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 ...

A deep-sea robot has captured the world’s first confirmed footage of a colossal squid alive in the wild. The juvenile squid is about 30 centimeters long and was filmed 600 meters down in the ...

The colossal squid is the largest invertebrate in the world, and one of the largest ocean predators. It has the largest eye in the animal kingdom, about the size of a dinner plate.

The squid filmed was a juvenile about 1 foot (30 centimetres) in length at a depth of 1,968 feet (600 metres) in the South Atlantic Ocean. Full-grown adult colossal squids, which scientists have ...

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.

A colossal squid is caught on camera for the first time in the deep sea By: Christina Larson, The Associated Press Posted: 1:05 PM CDT Wednesday, Apr. 16, 2025 Last Modified: 3:26 PM CDT Wednesday ...