From what we know, their diet consists of fish, shrimp and other squid. Some suggest that they may even be capable of taking ...

How big they are: Up to 32 feet (9.8 meters) long How long they live: Up to 100 years, but usually around 25 to 50 years What they eat: Fish, seals, seabirds, squid, sharks, and even whales Orcas ...

For comparison, the Museum's giant squid Archie measures in at 8.62 metres long. Despite their enormous size, whale sharks eat tiny planktonic organisms, including copepods, arrow worms, fish eggs, ...

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 ...

The squid was eating a hooked toothfish when ... most of which were found in the stomachs of sperm whales. Colossal squid are not related to giant squid, which also grow up to 12m long, and ...

or squid beaks that have been found in the bellies of sperm whales. The first recording of a living giant squid was made in 2006, after researchers working off Japan’s Ogasawara Islands managed ...

Their greatest adaptation are their huge eyes. Giant squids have the second-largest eyes of any creature on Earth, used to help detect and avoid sperm whales, which are the only predator large enough ...

The New Yorker's David Grann wrote that giant squid can be "larger than a whale and stronger than an elephant, with a beak that can sever steel cables." Here's what is known about the mysterious ...