The giant squid is a rare and elusive creature, once thought only to exist in stories of sea monsters called krakens. But in 2004, the Museum was offered a nearly complete specimen caught at a depth ...

The last known giant squid (Architeuthis dux) to wash ashore near Cape Town showed up on Long Beach in Kommetjie, on April 30. That cephalopod measured roughly 3.5 meters long.

The Kraken, the mythical beast of the sea, is real. Giant squid live in the dark depths of the ocean, and very little is known about them to this day. Until 2005, no scientist had ever ...