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In February 2006, a 8.62 meters giant squid caught off the Falkland Islands April 2005 went on public display at the Natural History Museum in London. Researchers at the museum undertook a painstaking ...

Scientists from NOAA’s Fisheries Service have captured a giant squid while conducting research off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. This is only the second known giant squid obtained from ...

This case study describes how the US Navy created Project Architeuthis, an alternative reality game (ARG), as part of a campaign to recruit prospective cryptologists. In 2013/14 the Navy was finding ...

Legends about gargantuan squid have existed for millennia, with photos confirming their existence nearly 150 years ago. But what is the largest squid in the world? Depending on how you measure, there ...

Giant squid caused many people to tell tales of what was known in folklore as the Kraken. Now, researchers have found the real-life "Kraken", the Architeuthis dux. The Architeuthis dux (A. dux) is the ...

In the following post I will enumerate the many ways in which current science repeatedly demonstrates that giant squids are awesomesauce. Awesomesauce: (n) Something that is more awesome than awesome.

The massive, sucker-covered carcass of a giant squid washed onto the rocky shore of Scarborough Beach in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday (Aug. 16). The beast, which measured nearly 14 feet (4.3 ...

Ancient mariners' tales of the terrifying Kraken, a colossal sea monster, have been scientifically linked to the elusive giant squid, Architeuthis dux. Once feared as a ship-destroying beast, modern ...

For centuries, the Kraken haunted the edges of maritime maps — a monstrous sea creature said to rise from the depths and drag entire ships into the abyss. Long dismissed as folklore, new research is ...

There is one less mystery in the deep sea: two Japanese researchers have finally photographed a live giant squid. It’s the first time one of the world’s largest cephalopods has been documented in its ...