In myth and cinema, the kraken was the most terrible of sea monsters ... Finally, in last July, scientists filmed the first video of a live giant squid swimming some 2,000 feet below the surface ...

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What they knew as the sea Kraken, the creature that was said to be “From the depths, it rises, a beast of ancient lore,” is a real creature known as the Giant squid (Architeuthis dux).

Mythical animals are often thought to exist only in folklore, but some legends may have stemmed from real creatures.

Because it lives so deep in the ocean, the so-called “kraken” has remained elusive even in modern times. The first photo of a living giant squid in ... myth-turned-real creature has to be ...

making them the world’s largest invertebrate — even bigger than the famed giant squid immortalized by Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” Live Science reported. The Kraken ...

While the Kraken, a species of squid, made news headlines worldwide last week, it did so not because it is a squid. Squids are related to octopuses and cuttlefishes and the trio can be told apart ...