The colossal squid is known for its large head and fins on its mantle. They have eight arms that they use to grasp prey, and each arm is fitted with hooks. Once they capture food in an ambush, they ...

Almost a century after the colossal squid was first discovered, a juvenile was filmed and photographed in its natural habitat ...

In a video shared by The Associated Press, squid researcher from the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, Dr. Kat Bolstad, states that Schmidt Ocean Institute captured the first live ...

The squid was captured on camera for the first time in the deep sea by an international team of researchers steering a remotely operated submersible.

A colossal squid was filmed in its natural environment by scientists for the first time, according to the Schmidt Ocean ...

The juvenile was about 30 centimeters long (a little less than a foot), with a transparent body, delicate arms and brown spots. It was a colossal squid. “Pretty much as soon as I saw the footage ...

They knew it was a colossal squid once they saw hooks on the middle of its eight arms. That's a distinctive feature that differentiates colossal squids from other species in the glass squid family.

An image from the first-ever confirmed footage of a colossal squid. Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute Scientists previously captured rare footage of a giant squid. Now, they've filmed another huge ...

Since its discovery in 1925, only eight adult specimens have been reported, severely limiting scientists’ ability to research ...

But since the characteristic features needed to identify a colossal squid – hooks on the ends of the two long tentacles and in the middle of each of the eight shorter arms – weren’t clearly ...

Her team quickly beamed the high-resolution footage to Bolstad and Evans, who spied telltale features of the colossal squid—including its unusual hook arrangement on its arms. “We got very ...

One hundred years after its discovery, one of the largest, most elusive mollusks has been filmed alive in its natural environment for the first time. On a recent expedition near the Antarctic ...