Long before modern whales ruled the oceans, there was a prehistoric predator unlike any other - Livyatan melvillei. In this ...

The smallest species of whale tricks its predators by gushing red gallons of red fluid into the water when under attack ...

Most of what we know about colossal squid comes from remains found in sperm whale stomachs, as was the case with its initial discovery in 1925, when marine biologist James Erik Hamilton found two ...

Colossal squid captured on video in deep sea for first time The mysterious creature was filmed in the ocean near Antarctica. Scientists documented the juvenile, which could grow to more than 1,000 ...

Elusive deep-sea squid filmed in first-of-its-kind video near Antarctica. See it By Aspen Pflughoeft Updated April 15, 2025 4:43 PM ...

Sperm whales, the squid’s main predator, can dive up to two kilometers (1.25 miles). Perhaps to help them avoid the whales, colossal squid have evolved the world’s largest eyes — bigger than ...

Sperm whales dive up to 3,000 feet (900 m) 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 and swallow ...

A sperm whale calf only hours old, swims next to its mother and a pod of sperm whales near Guam. More sperm whales have been detected off Monterey thanks to new technology being used to record them.

A sperm whale calf only hours old, swims next to its mother and a pod of sperm whales near Guam. More sperm whales have been detected off Monterey thanks to new technology being used to record them.

But exactly how sperm whales catch squid, like many other areas of their lives, remains a mystery. "They're slow swimmers," says Kirsten Young, a marine scientist at the University of Exeter.