The colossal squid's eyes were measured at about 27 centimeters (10.8 inches) across by researchers, who have been defrosting it and a smaller specimen at Te Papa, the national museum of New Zealand.

That's the reason a webcast beaming from the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa recently caught my attention. Scientists there are defrosting a colossal squid that fishermen pulled from the icy ...

The creature, known as a colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni ... aggressive species â€" is to be transferred to the Museum of New Zealand in Wellington for scientific study.

They had the same question every day: "Did you find it yet?" The scientists were searching for the colossal squid, an evasive cephalopod that can weigh 1,100 pounds. Though fishing boats have ...

dux specimen, said Mike Vecchione, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration invertebrate zoologist stationed at the Smithsonian's National Museum ... squid species, including the colossal ...