The high seas of the dinosaur era were teeming with a plethora of squids, a new study has found. Using a new technique for analyzing fossils locked away in chunks of rock, paleontologists in Japan and ...

WASHINGTON -- The razor-sharp beaks that giant squids use to attack whales — and maybe even Captain Nemo's submarine — might one day lead to improved artificial limbs for people. That deadly beak may ...

Ellen Goethel is a marine biologist and the owner of Explore the Ocean World Oceanarium at 367 Ocean Blvd. at Hampton Beach.

(CN) — Using 3D imaging of rocks, a research team from Hokkaido University in Japan found evidence that ancient squids once dominated the oceans. Cephalopods are model animals for long-term evolution, ...

Unprecedented footage of an elusive deep-sea creature came to light this week. On an expedition through the Southern Ocean last Christmas Day, researchers discovered the Gonatus antarcticus, a ...

Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) are also known as jumbo squid, and it’s easy to see why — they are absolutely enormous. An adult can reach 7 feet in length and weigh 110 pounds. But what is truly ...

Deep in the dark ocean, two legends meet. The orca is intelligent and powerful, and it’s feared across the seas. The elusive giant squid is a monster of the deep with hooked tentacles and a ...

The colossal squid, the heaviest invertebrate in the world, was captured on video swimming in the deep sea for the first time since it was identified a century ago. The video was recorded on March 9 ...

A colossal squid — the world's largest squid species — was filmed and photographed in its natural habitat for the first time since scientists discovered it about a century ago. Crew members on board a ...

I was perusing social media last night and came across two posts that featured photos of a gooey, curly mass that had washed up on the beach. It is that time of year when squid lay their eggs, and ...