Scientists suspect the first complete specimen ever recorded of the world’s rarest whale died from head injuries ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists in New Zealand completed the first-ever dissection of a rare spade-toothed whale, revealing intriguing ...

Scarcity of S and SS Illex squid specimens is believed might threaten prospects for the next season, thus the possible anticipated closure of the current season. The squid industry in Argentina is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the course of four trips, tourists on an Antarctic cruise ship watched researchers lower a camera into the frigid, icy waters of the Southern Ocean. They had the same question every day: "Did ...