The longest tentacle was over 16 feet long and washed up in New Zealand. — -- A giant squid washed up on a beach on New Zealand's South Island this week, a local aquarium reported on its Facebook ...

A beloved octopus that has drawn thousands of people's attention at the Aquarium of the Pacific has entered the final phase of its life, which will be fully devoted to eggs that can never hatch. Ghost ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon resident Ilyse Sheppard shared these photos of some large octopus tentacles that recently washed ashore on the Oregon Coast. The gangly tentacles, which washed up on the ...

To finish up our celebration of Cephalopod Week we wanted to share a bit of squid news. A group of researchers recently identified a potentially new squid species in the family Gonatidae. Scientists ...

Marine scientists have detailed a likely unknown species of squid that may spend years without eating to carefully watch over her eggs until they hatch. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes A team of ...

The deep sea teems with life. But in the black depths, these organisms remain largely mysterious. Squids in the deep ocean are rarely observed alive, but scientists on an exploration mission used a ...

AUBURN HILLS, MI – A Michigan aquarium is celebrating the arrival of a new shark species. The two Epaulette sharks named “Rosie” and “Riveter” made their public debut at Sea Life Michigan Aquarium in ...

In a corner tank in the Sitka Sound Science Center, there’s a soft creature about the size and shape of a plum. She’s a deep, ruddy purple, and she blasts little puffs of sand when someone gets too ...

Using a digital camera dangling from a line nearly 3,300 feet long, scientists for the first time have photographed a live giant squid, the tentacled deep-sea monster that is the largest invertebrate ...