Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Live in the Waters of Western Australia

Evidence of them has been found by analyzing DNA in the seawater. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Blog moderation policy...

Friday Squid Blogging: New Giant Squid Video

Pretty fantastic video from Japan of a giant squid eating another squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Blog moderation policy...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing in Peru

Peru has increased its squid catch limit. The article says "giant squid," but they can't possibly mean that. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Blog moderation policy...

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Eating a Diamondback Squid

I have no context for this video--it's from Reddit--but one of the commenters adds some context: Hey everyone, squid biologist here! Wanted to add some stuff you might find interesting. With so many people carrying around cameras, we're getting more videos of giant squid at the surface than in...

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid at the Smithsonian

I can't believe that I haven't yet posted this picture of a giant squid at the Smithsonian. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Blog moderation policy...

Friday Squid Blogging: Sperm Whale Eating a Giant Squid

Video. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Blog moderation policy...

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid vs. Blue Whale

A comparison aimed at kids...

Friday Squid Blogging: The Giant Squid Nebula

Beautiful photo. Difficult to capture, this mysterious, squid-shaped interstellar cloud spans nearly three full moons in planet Earth's sky. Discovered in 2011 by French astro-imager Nicolas Outters, the Squid Nebula's bipolar shape is distinguished here by the telltale blue emission from doubly...

Friday Squid Blogging: Japanese Divers Video Giant Squid

The video is really amazing. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered...

Friday Squid Blogging: Two-Man Giant Squid

The Brooklyn indie art-punk group, Two-Man Giant Squid, just released a new album. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered...

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Found on Spanish Beach

A giant squid has washed up on a beach in Northern Spain. Blog moderation policy...

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid from Newfoundland in the 1800s

Interesting article, with photographs. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Friday Squid Blogging: Why There Are No Giant Squid in Aquariums

Theyre too big and we cant recreate their habitat. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Video

A video--authentic, not a deep fake--of a giant squid close to the surface. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Friday Squid Blogging: Colossal Squid

Interesting article on the colossal squid, which is larger than the giant squid. The article answers a vexing question: So why do we always hear about the giant squid and not the colossal squid? Well, part of it has to do with the fact that the giant squid was discovered and studied long before t...

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid vs. Blue Marlin

Epic matchup. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Friday Squid Blogging: Studying the Colossal Squid

A survey of giant squid science. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I havent covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Friday Squid Blogging: Another Giant Squid Captured on Video

Heres a new video of a giant squid, filmed in the Sea of Japan. I believe its injured. Its so close to the surface, and not really moving very much. "We didnt see the kinds of agile movements that many fish and marine creatures normally show," he said. "Its tentacles and fins were moving very...

Friday Squid Blogging: Injured Giant Squid and Paddleboarder

Heres a video--I dont know where its from--of an injured juvenile male giant squid grabbing on to a paddleboard. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I havent covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Friday Squid Blogging: Newfoundland Giant Squid Sculpture

In 1878, a 55-foot-long giant squid washed up on the shores of Glovers Harbour, Newfoundland. Its the largest giant squid ever recorded--although scientists now think that the size was an exaggeration or the result of postmortem stretching--and theres a full-sized statue of it near the beach wher...