For a century, the colossal squid existed to science mainly as scraps: beaks pulled from whale stomachs, tentacle fragments hauled up in fishing nets, never a living animal in its own environment.

In the cold, dark waters surrounding Antarctica lives an animal so elusive that scientists have examined only a handful of intact adults. The colossal squid carries the largest eyes known in the ...

The colossal squid was first described in 1925 based on specimens from the stomach of a commercially hunted sperm whale. A century later, an international voyage captured the first confirmed video of ...