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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 ...

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 ...

One of the legendary mysteries of the sea was first solved in September 2004 when, after millennia of speculation, the first living and healthy giant squid was photographed off Japan's Ogasawara ...

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 ...

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.