TOYOOKA, Hyogo Prefecture—Two scuba divers captured rare photos and video of a giant squid slowly plodding along off the coast here and unusually close to the surface. Giant squids are one of ...

The giant squid is a rare and elusive creature, once thought only to exist in stories of sea monsters called krakens. But in 2004, the Museum was offered a nearly complete specimen caught at a depth ...

Scientists know very little about the elusive giant squid, which lives at ocean depths of between 300 and 1000m or more. Much of what they do know comes from the remains of dead or dying specimens ...

In November the zoologist will lead an expedition in search of one of the last great "monsters" of the sea, the giant squid. Although these cousins of the octopus have been found dead in fishermen ...