For the first time ever, researchers have captured three young giant squid. A giant squid at a depth of 630 meters in the Pacific Ocean near the Ogasawara islands, Japan, is shown in this ...

Last September a team of Japanese scientists filmed a giant squid in the wild for the first time. ”Most giant squid tend to be washed up dead on beaches, or retrieved from the stomach of sperm ...

A giant squid made an unusual appearance in Japan’s Toyama Bay on Christmas Eve. Akinobu Kimura, the owner of Diving Shop Kaiyu, captured video of the squid as it swam around the bay with a ...

The first-ever observations of a giant squid in its natural habitat were made in deep waters in the north Pacific in 2004, and Japanese broadcaster NHK, along with the Discovery Channel filmed the ...

New Zealand’s leading authority on the giant squid, marine biologist Steve O’Shea, praised the Japanese team’s feat. “Through sheer … determination the guy has gone on and done it ...

Giant squid, the huge tentacled creatures that live in the dark ocean depths, were probably the inspiration for the legend the kraken and have remaind largely elusive for most of human history.

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 ...

On Friday, a group of Japanese scientists unveiled a video of a live giant squid—what they claim are “the first ever moving pictures of a giant squid.” (You can watch the video here.) ...

Giant squid live in the deep waters so they are not often seen, but fishermen in central Japan's Toyama Prefecture have captured one using their nets on Thursday morning. What makes the catch more ...

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Squid is a local delicacy in Noto and building the statue was part of a “long-term strategy” to raise awareness about the town’s fishing industry and increase tourism, a local government ...

A coastal town in western Japan is under fire for using hundreds of thousands of dollars designated for COVID-19 relief for something slightly less important — a giant squid statue. Local ...