Science News for Kids: Feature: Fishing for Giant Squid
An underwater camera has snapped the first pictures of a live giant squid. Stories of giant sea monsters have terrified people since ancient times. Some of the scariest tales involve a gargantuan squid that attacks boats and snares sailors with ... [... more]
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Outside and Inside Giant Squid (Outside and Inside ...
 everybody loves big squids!: As a longtime fan of cephalopods in general and squids in particular, I was very impressed by this book. It's quite good at being accessible to readers of a fairly young age while not "dumbing down" the science at [... more]
$8.95
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Bryn Barnard
For centuries, sailors have handed down stories of the giant squid. They say this mysterious monster of the deep chases ships and battles whales. They say it can weigh up to 1,000 pounds and that its eyes can be as big as a human head! Are these ... [... more]
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Japan Researchers Film Live Giant Squid
A Japanese research team has succeeded in filming a giant squid live -- possibly for the first time -- and says the elusive creatures may be more plentiful than previously believed, a researcher said Friday. TOKYO (AP) -- A Japanese research team ... [... more]
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'It is a Whopper:' Giant Squid on Beach
HOBART, Australia (AP) -- A squid as long as a bus and weighing 550 pounds washed up on an Australian beach, officials said Wednesday. Giant squid live in waters off southern Australia and New Zealand -- where a half-ton colossus, believed to be ... [... more]
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Record Giant Squid Put on Ice
Researchers attempt to thaw a colossal half-ton squid, believed to be the largest ever caught, to study it better. The crew of the New Zealand vessel San Aspiring work to bring aboard the colossal squid they found in the Ross Sea. The squid was ... [... more]
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Search for the Giant Squid
The most mysterious and elusive of all sea creatures, the giant squid -- at least sixty feet long and weighing nearly a ton -- is also one of the largest. Yet for all its magnificent size and threatening undersea presence, Architeuthis has remained a [... more]
$17.95
A1 Books |
Tentacles!: Tales of the Giant Squid
For centuries, sailors have handed down stories of the giant squid. Does this undersea animal live up to its legendary size? This beginning reader answers this and other questions about the myths surrounding the creature. Illustrations.For centuries, [... more]
$0.25
A1 Books |
The Search for the Giant Squid
Amazon.com Review: The sea contains many mysteries, and among the most enduring of them are giant squids of the genus Architeuthis. About this squid, known as the "kraken" in classical mythology, we know little, except, oceanographic writer [... more]
$35.00
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The Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and ...
Amazon.com Review: The sea contains many mysteries, and among the most enduring of them are giant squids of the genus Architeuthis. About this squid, known as the "kraken" in classical mythology, we know little, except, oceanographic writer [... more]
$16.00
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Tentacles!: Tales of the Giant Squid (Step into Reading)
A Reader With Mystery: What is more mysterious than giant creatures that live deep in the sea? Tentacles! Tales of the Giant Squid grabs the reader from the start. Author Shirley Raye Redmond writes that no one has ever seen a giant squid alive in its [... more]
$3.99
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Plush Giant Squid 20"
Features: Nice Quality and Detail. Plush Giant Squid 20" The Mysterious Creature of the Deep Sea....a mystery no more!.: My eight year old daughter saved her money to purchase this stuffed animal. I regularly provide a firm "no" about [... more]
$16.99
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