(CNN)-- Scientists studying the carcass of what they call the heaviest squid ever found have discovered it has eyes as big as soccer balls -- reportedly the largest in the world. The colossal ...

According to Dr O'Shea colossal squid range as far north as a line between Christchurch and the Chatham Islands in New Zealand.

Squid use a jet propulsion system to power themselves through the water and have three hearts that pump blue blood. Giant and colossal squid have the largest eyes in the animal kingdom.

Colossal squid sometimes inhabit the world of fiction and imagination, but have rarely been seen in daylight. It was a calm morning in Antarctica's remote Ross Sea, during the season when the sun ...