Video: 'What's it to ya, Moby Dick?': Rare giant squid with fist sized beak and massive eye that typically roams 3,000 feet below ocean's surface washes up on Cape Town shore just months after ...

Most of what scientists know about the animal is based on carcasses that have washed ashore on beaches, or squid beaks that have been found in the bellies of sperm whales. The first recording of a ...

Giant squids, while actually harmless to humans ... two longer feeding tentacles that help them bring food into their ...

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 ...

The study was published March 20 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. For a parting shot, here's the giant squid's beak.

The post-mortem examination on the mammal found at Porth Neigwl, Gwynedd also discovered it ate squid beaks. Experts said the whale was very poorly and underweight when it became stranded and had ...

Peel the purple and white skin from the squid meat. Remove the 'beak' from the tentacles - it resembles a small white piece of bone with a hole in the middle. The tentacles and squid body can both ...

cutting away the beak which will be in the centre of the tentacles. Carefully remove the entrails and the ink sac from the main body. Pull out the cuttlebone (or squid quill), then rinse the ...