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.

It’s a jarring sight; no sperm whales live in this vast body of water. Many of the people who gathered to see the giant marine mammal on the coast of Azerbaijan’s capital Baku have never seen ...

The squid catch has increased: in the last five years alone, between 800,000 tons and 1.16 million tons have been caught. China has a declared fleet of 671 ships. Giant squid, squid or Dosidicus ...

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Beached whale art installation appears along waterfront in COP29 host city Artists from the Captain Boomer Collective built and installed a beached sperm whale along the waterfront in Baku ...

Bounded by the Caspian Sea, the former Soviet republic known as Azerbaijan may be one of the last places people would expect to see a beached sperm whale. As the world's largest lake, the inland ...

Squid are strong swimmers that use jet propulsion to move. They suck water into a siphon, then expel it out of the funnel in a fast, strong jet ...

which has no known population of sperm whales. Since Monday, residents have flocked to the shoreline to see this giant marine mammal up close. The massive dead whale on Baku’s shores is not real - ...

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