Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

many people think of giant whales, squid or octopuses with infinite tentacles or sharks that would scare the wits out of Martin Brody and Quint, the main characters in Spielberg's first film about ...

The creature, known as a colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) and with eyes the size of a car ... the stomachs of sperm whales. Colossal squid are not related to giant squid, which also ...

Interestingly, a giant sperm whale needs to eat 2,000 pounds a day, but its preference isn’t sharks — it prefers giant squid.

The eyes of a giant squid are the size of dinner plates and eyes up to 35cm in diameter have been reported. It’s thought they evolved to spot large predators, such as sperm whales. They do not ...

Most other known remains of giant squid are fragments washed up on beaches or found in the stomach contents of sperm whales. When the Museum specimen was accidentally caught by a fishing trawler it ...

You'd think that the more we studied a mysterious species like the giant ... mean that the squid's populations could have expanded rapidly — possibly because of overfishing of whales in the ...

Whales' large size also helps them stay warm ... below the ocean's surface to hunt for giant squid and other deep-sea prey. Some toothed whales use only their teeth to capture and grab prey ...