It helped turn O'Shea into an internationally recognised authority on giant squids. Te Papa/ CC BY 4.0 The colossal squid's tentacles features large claws that can rotate 360 degrees (Credit ...

A diver in Japan swam alongside an unusual companion earlier this month: An 8.2-foot-long (2.5 meter) giant squid. Yosuke Tanaka, who co-runs Dive Resort T-Style with his wife in Toyooka City ...

Unlike the giant squid — which is lighter but thought to be longer and is found throughout the majority of the deep ocean, colossal squids call only Antarctic waters home. Jyotika Virmani ...

However, adult colossal squid can grow to lengths of 23 feet long and weigh 1,100 pounds, making them the world’s largest invertebrate — even bigger than the famed giant squid immortalized by ...

The colossal squid is not to be confused with a giant squid, according to the Natural History Museum of London. Both are massive cephalopods but belong to different families of squid. The giant ...

Pandora Dewan is a Senior Science Reporter at Newsweek based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on science, health and technology. Pandora joined Newsweek in 2022 and previously worked as the ...

A rarely seen giant squid described as an "amazing ghost creature" has been found washed up on a beach. The huge creature was discovered washed up on the shore of Scarborough Beach in South Africa ...

"Now we can say that it attains a size larger than the giant squid. Giant squid is no longer the largest squid that's out there. We've got something that's even larger, and not just larger but an ...