A sperm whale that was entangled in ropes has died after it became stranded on a shore of the island of Raasay. The 15m-long (49ft) animal was spotted in difficulty off nearby Skye on Thursday.

A single sperm whale can eat more than one ton of squid per day. They do eat giant squid on occasion, but most of what sperm whales pursue is relatively small and overmatched. With their clicks ...

Some suggest it functions as an amplifier that magnifies sounds—the loudest recorded from any animal—to stun giant squid and other prey or communicate with other sperm whales. Some experts say ...

Most other known remains of giant squid are fragments washed up on beaches or found in the stomach contents of sperm whales. When the Museum specimen was accidentally caught by a fishing trawler it ...

The eyes of a giant squid are the size of dinner plates and eyes up to 35cm in diameter have been reported. It’s thought they evolved to spot large predators, such as sperm whales. They do not ...

The giant squid, known to researchers by its scientific ... or have been found in the stomachs of their main predator, the sperm whale. As far as researchers know, the animal has 10 arms, and ...