Known by the scientific name "Dosidicus gigas" or popularly as the Jumbo, or Humboldt, Squid - this type of mollusk is found in almost the entire Pacific coast and can grow to a size of between 50 ...

An international team of experts has resolved long-standing questions about the evolutionary history of mollusks, one of the ...

Then, they found it in a squid. Then, a nautilus. Nautilus, a mollusk, split from octopus around 480 million years ago and squid diverged from octopuses between 248 and 455 million years ago. Finding ...

The giant squid is a rare and elusive creature, once thought only to exist in stories of sea monsters called krakens. But in 2004, the Museum was offered a nearly complete specimen caught at a depth ...

Consort squid can be considerably larger than sneakers when they mature, growing on average to 300 millimeters (mantle length) compared to 150 mm. However, sneaker squid have been found to have ...

The sausage is made from muscle giant squid (Dosidicus gigas ... a group of researchers managed to add value to this mollusk that is characterized by its high nutritional content, as it offers ...

Theodora Mautz is a second-year PhD student studying marine biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

Based in Toyama, Taka has been filming and photographing the squid for years and would provide the expertise we needed to find these mesmerizing mollusks. We knew we might only get one shot at ...