The giant squid is a rare and elusive creature, once thought only to exist in stories of sea monsters called krakens. But in 2004, the Museum was offered a nearly complete specimen caught at a depth ...

and that the giant squid spotted in Toyooka is probably 1 to 2 years old. Experts believe giant squids usually live at a depth of 600 to 1,000 meters, where the water temperature is 4 to 10 degrees.

Scientists know very little about the elusive giant squid, which lives at ocean depths of between 300 and 1000m or more. Much of what they do know comes from the remains of dead or dying specimens ...

Deep sea scientist Edie Widder who had been part of the science team to track down and film the first ever images of the giant ... reaching a depth of 950 metres, we found Humboldt squid.