An adult specimen of the world's largest known squid was hauled to the surface by a New Zealand longliner fishing for toothfish in Antarctic waters. The creature, known as a colossal squid ...

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 from the UK have identified the smallest and youngest specimen of Ichthyosaurus communis on record and found an additional surprise preserved in its stomach. The ichthyosaur fossil has a ...

and with good sized specimens. Until last 5 March the overall catch has totaled 74.913 tons, a 54% higher than in the same period a year ago, with Illex squid the main catch. The 65 jiggers ...

Squid or calamari is available most of the year fresh or frozen. It varies in size, from small specimens 5-7cm/2-3in in length, to larger ones of about 25cm/10in. Few shellfish fare so well when ...

Artist Alice Shirley took one look at the Museum’s giant squid specimen and decided she had to draw it. Life size. Using fresh squid ink. Watch her unusual painting take shape. Giant squid were once ...

The scientists were searching for the colossal squid, an evasive cephalopod that can weigh 1,100 pounds. Though fishing boats have found a handful of complete and partial specimens, researchers ...

Scientists know very little about the elusive giant squid, which lives at ocean depths ... do know comes from the remains of dead or dying specimens, one of which was caught off the coast of ...

They were carnivores, feeding upon other reptiles, fish, and marine invertebrates such as the squid-like belemnites. Ichthyosaur fossils are quite common in the UK and often found in British Jurassic ...