Capt. John Bennett shows a colossal squid he and and his crew caught in Antarctica's remote Ross Sea in December 2013. The creature, w ...

It may be the biggest invertebrate on the planet, but we don’t know much about it. The first time scientists learned of the colossal squid was in 1925. Remains of the massive sea creature had been ...

Scientists say this is a baby colossal squid, at home in the deep sea near Antarctica.ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute The colossal squid, a mysterious creature lurking in the Antarctic abyss, ...

This week, scientists announced that they had captured the first confirmed video of a colossal squid in its natural habitat, recorded some 1,968 feet (600 m) below the ocean surface near the South ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A fishing crew has caught a colossal squid that could weigh a half-ton and prove to be the biggest specimen ever landed, a fisheries official said Thursday. The squid, ...

A colossal squid has been captured on camera in its natural habitat for the first time in the 100 years since its discovery — and it's a baby. The squid, measuring about one foot in length, was seen ...

For nearly a century, the colossal squid has been a shadowy enigma of the deep sea, known only through fragmented remains in predator stomachs or as dying specimens hauled to the surface. Now, for the ...

Picture a pair of eyes the size of soccer balls peering out at you from the dark depths of the ocean. For the colossal squid, this is life. The eye size of the colossal squid has been measured to be ...

The world's largest invertebrate remained hidden from humanity until a tantalising glimpse 100 years ago. It would take decades, however, before we finally came face to face with the colossal squid.

A commercial fishing crew in New Zealand has hauled up what may be the finest example yet of Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni , the colossal squid, which is thought to outweigh the giant squid and rival it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists say they've captured the first footage of a living colossal squid in the deep sea. The colossal squid is the world's ...