giant squid
noun
: any of a genus (Architeuthis) of extremely large squids that may attain a length of 60 feet (18 meters) and include the largest mollusks known
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As part of its long-running relationship with the Discovery Channel in 2012, NHK went on to capture the world’s first video images of a giant squid (pictured above) in its natural deep‐ocean habitat, bringing home how global warming was reaching even the deep sea.
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Max Goldbart, Deadline, 18 June 2025
Other contemporaries of these animals included large cephalopods such as giant squid, as well as huge sea scorpions.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 21 May 2025
For years, tales of giant squids roaming the ocean depths lived mostly in folklore and maritime legends — dismissed as mythological creatures without solid scientific backing.
—Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025
In 2004, David Grann wrote about the hunt for another species of huge squid, the giant squid, and considered how something so big could remain unseen—and be less understood than dinosaurs.
—Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2025
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Max Goldbart, Deadline, 18 June 2025
Other contemporaries of these animals included large cephalopods such as giant squid, as well as huge sea scorpions.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 21 May 2025
For years, tales of giant squids roaming the ocean depths lived mostly in folklore and maritime legends — dismissed as mythological creatures without solid scientific backing.
—Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025
In 2004, David Grann wrote about the hunt for another species of huge squid, the giant squid, and considered how something so big could remain unseen—and be less understood than dinosaurs.
—Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2025
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