List of giant squid specimens and sightings (20th century)

This article lists only records from the 20th century. For earlier records and an overview of the topic, see List of giant squid specimens and sightings. For later records, see List of giant squid specimens and sightings (21st century).

This much-reproduced photograph shows a giant squid found at Ranheim in Trondheimsfjord, Norway, on 2 October 1954 (#137 on this list), being examined by Professors Erling Sivertsen and Svein Haftorn. The unusually complete specimen measured 9.24 m in total length and had a mantle length of 1.79 m. Specimens such as this, if properly preserved, can provide important scientific data long after they are collected; the animal pictured had its beak morphometrics and tentacle morphology studied by Roeleveld (2000) and Roeleveld (2002), respectively.

This list of giant squid specimens and sightings from the 20th century is a comprehensive timeline of human encounters with members of the genus Architeuthis, popularly known as giant squid. It includes animals that were caught by fishermen, found washed ashore, recovered (in whole or in part) from sperm whales and other predatory species, as well as those reliably sighted at sea. The list also covers specimens incorrectly assigned to the genus Architeuthis in original descriptions or later publications.

Background

For an overview of giant squid specimens throughout history, see List of giant squid specimens and sightings § Background.

The frequency of documented giant squid encounters greatly increased throughout the 20th century, providing much insight into the species's biology and life history. It was found that giant squid are preyed upon not only by sperm whales but by a wide range of other animals including albacore (#192), lancetfish (#151 and 165; see #48 for 19th century record), swordfish (#232), blue sharks (#215 and 366), Portuguese dogfish (#202), shortfin mako sharks (#204 and 416), sleeper sharks (#385, 394, 415, 417, and 418), and northern elephant seals (#277 and 328). One specimen taken alive by troll was reportedly attacked by a false killer whale during retrieval (#247).

Observations of live and freshly dead animals also revealed new aspects of giant squid behaviour, including rapid colour change (#379) and high-speed swimming at the surface (#107), though the veracity of the latter observation has been questioned (Ellis, 1998a:201). Additionally, examinations of dead specimens and partial remains provided data on diet (#226 and 401), longevity and habitat (#360, 362, and 365), depth of occurrence and buoyancy (#246 and 265), metabolism and locomotory ability (#400), as well as tentacle regeneration and internal parasites (#170). New preservation methods, including plastination (#414), were also trialled.

The large-scale commercial exploitation of sperm whales, particularly from the end of World War II to the 1970s, provided a rich source of giant squid remains for scientific study. The vast majority of these consisted of disarticulated beaks (with up to 47 found in a single sperm whale stomach; #327), though more substantial remains were occasionally recovered, including even whole adult specimens (#85, 129, 138, 153, 208, 225, and 234), with one reportedly showing signs of life after being vomited (#129).

Following the flurry of new giant squid species descriptions that characterised the latter half of the 19th century, the 20th century saw only three newly erected species: Architeuthis japonica by Pfeffer (1912:27), based on a specimen caught in Tokyo Bay in 1895 (#66); Architeuthis clarkei by Robson (1933), based on a carcass that washed ashore in Scarborough, England, earlier that year (#108); and Architeuthis nawaji by Cadenat (1935), based on a specimen caught in the Bay of Biscay the same year (#110). The consensus today is that there exists only a single, globally distributed species of giant squid: Architeuthis dux (Winkelmann et al., 2013; Guerra et al., 2013).

The second half of the 20th century saw the first serious efforts to photograph or film a live giant squid, but it would not be until the first years of the 21st century that this milestone was finally achieved.

List of giant squid

For earlier records and a detailed overview of the table format, see List of giant squid specimens and sightings § List of giant squid.

#	Date	Location	Nature of encounter	Identification	Material cited	Material saved	Sex	Size and measurements	Repository	Main references	Additional references	Notes
73	1902	north of Faroe Islands, Atlantic Ocean {NEA}	Found floating at surface, dead	?Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire, very bad condition	Entire		BL+HL: 76 cm; ML: 63 cm; MW: 15 cm; FL: 26.7 cm; FW: 8 cm; TL: 214 cm; ASD: 8 mm; TSD: 11 mm	Bergen Museum [=ZMUB?]	Murray & Hjort (1912); Grieg (1933:20)	Broch (1954:151)	Young specimen taken by Michael Sars.
74	15 August 1903	Mjofjord, Iceland {NEA}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Tentacle (partial), arm	Tentacle (from mouth of whale)		TD: 17 cm; ?AL: 6 m	Bergen Museum [=ZMUB?]	Murray & Hjort (1912); Grieg (1933:21)		Length of arm given by whalers.
75	July 1906	?, Norway {NEA}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.						Collett (1912:635)
76	1907	?, Norway {NEA}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.						Collett (1912:635)
77	March 1909	off Highland Light, Truro, Massachusetts {NWA}	Not stated; floating at surface?	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	None		AL: 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m); ?WL: ~16–17 ft (4.9–5.2 m); AD: 4 in (10 cm)	None	Blake (1909:43)		Found by schooner Annie Perry; attempted to be hoisted aboard but cut in half by rope; tentacle [arm] saved but later discarded.
78	July 1909	?, Norway {NEA}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.						Collett (1912:635)
79	September 1910	off coast of Mayo, Ireland {NEA}	From two sperm whale stomachs	Architeuthis sp.	Two upper beaks and eye lens(es)	Entire?		None	NMI; catalog no. 1912.75.1 (possibly also 1995.16.484)	Massy (1913:2); Sigwart & Leonard (2009:96)		Collected by Captain Bruun from two sperm whale stomachs per Massy (1913), but specimen label indicates a single sperm whale and gives donor name as E.W.L. Holt (Sigwart & Leonard, 2009). A second Architeuthis accession (NMI 1995.16.484), which lacks an acquisition date but is labelled "Beak and eye of Cuttlefish from stomach of sperm whale. Blacksod Bay [in County Mayo]. Given by H.C. Hartnell.", may represent the remains from the second sperm whale stomach reported by Massy (1913); based on its label this specimen appears to date from the late 19th to early 20th century (Sigwart & Leonard, 2009).
80	1910/1911? (autumn)	Lundenes, Grytøya, Senjen, Norway {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	None		WL: 1.2 m		Brinkmann (1916:178); Grieg (1933:20)	Nordgård (1928:71); Sivertsen (1955:11)
81	June 1911	Monterey Bay, California, United States {NEP}	Floating at surface, dead	Unidentified; Architeuthis?	Entire; "in very bad condition, there was no color left, and the epidermis had all sloughed off"	None		EL: >30 ft (9.1 m)		Berry (1912:117)
82 (📷)	February 1912	Veiholmen, Smøla, Norway {NEA}	Found in shallow water	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	Entire		BL: 1.9 m; TL: 6.7 m	Kristiansund Museum	Brinkmann (1916:180, fig. 3); Grieg (1933:20)	Nordgård (1928:71); Sivertsen (1955:11)
83	1912	Japan {NWP}						Unknown		Pfeffer (1912)	Ellis (1998a:260)
84	12 October 1912	Monterey Bay, California, United States {NEP}	Not indicated	Unidentified; Architeuthis?	Entire	None		WT: ~500 lb (230 kg)		Berry (1914:22)		Observed by Mr. K. Hovden (Manager, Booth Canning Company, Monterey). Eaten raw by Italian fishermen who "captured" it. [Highly doubtful considering ammonium chloride present in giant squid tissues.]
85	June–September 1913	Belmullet whaling station, Ireland {NEA}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis harveyi (Kent, 1874)	Entire, plus other parts	Tip of tentacle; beak and radula; other dry beaks plus portion of gladius		ML: 6 ft (1.8 m); BC: 4 ft (1.2 m); AL: 6 ft (1.8 m); TL: 21 ft (6.4 m); FL: 1 ft 7 in (0.48 m); FW: 1 ft 9.5 in (0.546 m)	Undetermined; University of Liverpool?	Hamilton (1915:137); Hardy (1956:286); Collins (1998:489)	Rees (1950:40)	From 57 ft 3 in (17.45 m) male sperm whale (no. 22) examined by J.E. Hamilton.
86 (📷)	22 November 1915 [21 November fide Roeleveld (2002:727)]	Lerøya, Austrheim, north of Bergen, Norway {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	Initially entire [head and viscera fide Roeleveld (2000:185); Roeleveld (2002:727)]	Male [immature female fide Roeleveld (2000:185); Roeleveld (2002:727)]	ML+HL: 1550 mm; ML: 1310 mm; BD: 440 mm; HW: 310 mm; FL: 430 mm; FW: 105; AL(I): 1780 mm; AL(IV): 1640 mm; TL: 5600 mm [TL: 4925 mm [right] fide Roeleveld (2002:729)]; CL: 745 mm [right]; CSC: 262 [right]; TSC: 287 [right]; LRL: 15.8 mm; URL: 15.9 mm; additional beak measurements, indices, and counts	ZMUB; ZMUB 43689 [specimen NA-12 of Roeleveld (2000) and Roeleveld (2002)]	Brinkmann (1916:175, fig. 1); Grieg (1933:17); Roeleveld (2000:185); Roeleveld (2002:727)	Nordgård (1928:71); Sivertsen (1955:11); Toll & Hess (1981b:754)	Plaster cast made of specimen also in Bergen Museum. Beak morphometrics studied by Roeleveld (2000). Tentacle morphology examined by Roeleveld (2002).
87	17 March 1916	Hellandsjo, west of Hevnefjord, Norway {NEA}	Found washed ashore, alive	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	A little of the front part, tentacles and arms; remainder used for bait		TL: 6.2 m	VSM	Brinkmann (1916:180); Grieg (1933:20)	Nordgård (1923:11); Nordgård (1928:71); Sivertsen (1955:11)	With sucker response when found by J.F. Vaagan.
88	November 1916	Oyvag, Djonna, Helgoland, Atlantic Ocean {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire?	None		None		Grieg (1933:20)
89	29 October 1917	Skateraw, Berwickshire, Scotland (55°58.5′N 02°25′W) {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis harveyi (Kent, 1874); Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	Club and gladius fragment		BL+HL: 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m); FW: 19 in (48 cm); AL: 4 ft (1.2 m); AC: 9.5 in (24 cm); TL: 13 ft 10 in (4.22 m); CL: 2 ft 6 in (0.76 m); other measurements and description	NMSZ catalog no. 1917.54.1–2	Ritchie (1918:133); Ritchie (1922:423); Robson (1933:692); Heppell & Smith (1983:35)	Stephen (1944:264); Rees (1950:40); Stephen (1962:154); Collins (1998:489)	Observations by J. Ritchie after earlier mutilation of specimen by local boys. Colour drawing by Ritchie in NMSZ.
90 (📷)	10 January 1918	reportedly caught in Awa Province; Tokyo fishmarket, Japan {NWP}	Not stated	Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Entire	Undetermined	Male (mature)	ML: 1100 mm; BC: 800 mm; FL: 400 mm; FW: 320 mm; GL: 1040 mm		Sasaki (1929:224, pl. 20 figs. 1–11); Heuvelmans (1968)	Toll & Hess (1981b:753)
91	1918	Kilkel, County Clare, Ireland {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis sp.	Not specified	Undetermined		None		Hardy (1956:286)	Collins (1998:489)
92	November 1919	Oyvag of Dønna, off coast of Nordland, Norway {NEA}	Not stated	Architeuthis dux	Entire?	Undetermined		None		Nordgård (1923:11)	Nordgård (1928:71); Sivertsen (1955:11, fig. 4)
93	February 1920	Vallay, North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis or Sthenoteuthis [fide Ritchie]; Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 [fide Stephen]	Entire	None		"Length of squid": 3.5–4 ft (1.1–1.2 m); AL: ~1 ft (0.30 m)		Ritchie (1920:57)	Stephen (1944:264); Rees (1950:40); Stephen (1962:154); Collins (1998:489)	Information from Mr. G. Beveridge.
94	1921	Wick, Moray Firth, Scotland {NEA}	Not stated	Architeuthis dux	Beak and sucker ring, dry	Sucker ring; beak lost, photograph only extant		None	NMSZ	Heppell & Smith (1983:33)	Collins (1998:489)
95 (📷)	1922	Caithness, North of Scotland {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis harveyi (Kent, 1874); Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 [fide Stephen (1962:154)]	Not specified	Undetermined		None	NMSZ	Ritchie (1922:423); Robson (1933:692)	Stephen (1944:264); Rees (1950:40); Hardy (1956:287); Stephen (1962:154)
96	1924	Margate, Natal {SIO}							Unknown	Heuvelmans (1968)	Ellis (1998a:260)
97	9 ?October 1924	Bluff, New Zealand {SWP}	Not stated			Undetermined		BL: 7 ft (2.1 m); "spread of tentacles": 18 ft (5.5 m)		Dell (1952:98)	The New Zealand Herald 9 October 1924
98	Unknown (prior to spring 1926)	Urago Bay, Oki Islands, Japan {NWP}	Not stated	?Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undetermined		None		Hamabe (1957); Nishimura (1968:75)		Capture date prior to spring 1926.
99	1926 (early spring)	off Kuniga, Oki Islands, Japan {NWP}	Not stated	?Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undetermined		None		Hamabe (1957); Nishimura (1968:75)
100	1926	Wingan Inlet, Victoria, Australia {SWP}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Undetermined		None		MacPherson & Gabriel (1962:413)
101	13 December 1927	Kalveidøy, Fitjar, Norway {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	None		BL: 1 m; TL: 6.5 m		Grieg (1933:19)	Sivertsen (1955:11)
102 (📷)	4 March 1928	Ranheim (about 8 km east of Trondheim), Norway {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	Entire	Male	?EL: ~7.9 m; ML: 1.37 m; AL: 1.4–1.5 m; TL: 6.4 m; LRL: 15.0 mm; URL: 13.7 mm; additional beak measurements	VSM; VSM 108a [specimen NA-19 of Roeleveld (2000)]	Nordgård (1928:70, text-fig.); Grieg (1933:20); Roeleveld (2000:185)	Sivertsen (1955:5); Aldrich (1991:476)	Spermatophores present. Beak morphometrics studied by Roeleveld (2000).
103	1928	off Greenland {NEA/NWA}						Jaws only		Muus (1962)	Ellis (1998a:260)	Seen by members of the Godthaab Expedition.
104	24 January 1930	Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland (56°02.5′N 02°51′W) {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	Undetermined		BL+HL: 1803 mm; HL: 381 mm; HC: 711 mm; ML: 1422 mm; BC: 1143 mm [at mantle edge]; additional measurements	NSMZ; catalog no. 1930.174. Stephen specimen No. 1	Stephen (1962:151); Heppell & Smith (1983:34)	Collins (1998:489)	Data from unpublished Ritchie manuscript; see Heppell & Smith concerning locality data.
105	1930?	Goose Bay, Kaikoura, New Zealand {SWP}	Not stated		Entire	Undetermined		BL: 11 ft (3.4 m); AL[TL?]: ~30 ft (9.1 m)		Dell (1952:98)	Paxton (2016a:83)	W.R.B. Oliver (observer?). Considered by Paxton (2016a:83) as the "longest measured" mantle length of any giant squid specimen (though "more reliably" that of #48).
106	1930	Miura Peninsula, Japan {NWP}						?EL: 26 ft 6 in (8.08 m)		Tomilin (1967)	Ellis (1998a:260)
107 (📷)	1930–1933	Pacific between Hawaii and Samoa {SWP}	Observed swimming alongside ship at high speed before "attacking" it	Architeuthis	Entire	None		Size not estimated	None	Grønningsæter (1946:379, fig. 1a); Ellis (1998a:123, 201)	Aldrich (1991:477); Ellis (1998a:261)	Seen swimming at 20–25 kn (37–46 km/h) (based on three observations) alongside freighter M/V Brunswick (15,000 tons) before turning towards ship and "hitting the hull approximately 150 ft (46 m) from the stern at a depth of 12–15 ft (3.7–4.6 m)", then "skidd[ing] along until it ended up in the propeller, where it was ground to pieces", as recounted by shipmaster Arne Grønningsæter. Veracity of account has been questioned (Ellis, 1998a:201), though taken seriously by Aldrich (1991:477) who described it as "[t]he classical report on the speed of architeuthid swimming" and cited it as evidence that giant squid are sufficiently fast to evade sperm whales (the latter capable of only around 10–12 kn (19–22 km/h)).
108 (📷)	14 January 1933	Scarborough, Yorkshire, England {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis clarkei Robson, 1933	Entire	Entire		ML: 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m); MW: 1 ft 10 in (0.56 m); FL: 2 ft 1.5 in (0.648 m); FW: 1 ft 7 in (0.48 m) [total]; EL: 17 ft 5 in (5.31 m) [ends of tentacles missing]; WT: 16 st 11 lb (107 kg); numerous additional measurements	BMNH 1933.1.30.5 + 1926.3.31.24 (radula and beak) and Scarborough Museums Trust (several sucker rings); holotype of Architeuthis clarkei Robson, 1933	Clarke (1933:157, fig.); Robson (1933:681, text-figs. 1–7, pl. 1); Eyden (2020, figs. 1–2, 4, 6)	Yorkshire Evening Post, 14 January 1933; Leeds Mercury, 16, 19 & 21 January 1933; The Yorkshire Post, 17 January 1933; The Illustrated London News, 21 January 1933 (cover story); Hull Daily Mail, 20 June 1933; [Anonymous] (1934:57); Stevenson (1935:114); Stephen (1944:264); Rees (1950:40); Hardy (1956:286); Spaul (1956:63)Collins (1998:489)	Specimen obtained by W.J. Clarke.
109 (📷)	December 1933	Dildo, Newfoundland {NWA}	Not stated				Male	ML: 1560 mm		Frost (1934:100, figs. 1–5, pls. 1–3)	Knudsen (1957:189); Toll & Hess (1981b:754); Aldrich (1991:476)	A replica of this giant squid is now on display in Dildo.
110 (📷)	26 June 1935	Gulf of Gascogne [Bay of Biscay (46°50'N) at 200 m depth {NEA}	By trawl	Architeuthis nawaji [fide Cadenat (1935)]; Architeuthis harveyi [fide Cadenat (1936)]	Entire		Female	EL: 818 cm; ML: 138 cm; FL: 60 cm; TL: 645 cm; AL(IV): 112 cm; AL(I): 110 cm	?MHNLR	Cadenat (1935:513); Cadenat (1936:277, figs. 1–3)		Caught by the Palombe.
111 (📷)	12 November 1935	Holyrood, Harbour Main, Conception Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	None; destroyed in fire	Female	ML: 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m); BC: 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m); FL: 2 ft 9 in (0.84 m); FW: 2 ft 1 in (0.64 m); TL: 17 ft 3 in (5.26 m); HL: 1 ft 7 in (0.48 m)	None	Frost (1936, figs. 1–10); Stephen (1962:155); Dyson (1982:107); Peterman (2002); see discussion		Caught by Harbour Main fisherman Joe Ezekiel, who sold specimen to a scientist for $10.00. Stored in local Fisheries Department's fish freezer, which caught fire, destroying specimen. At least three photographs of the specimen exist.
112	7 January 1937	off Bell Rock, Angus, Arbroath, Scotland (56°26′N 02°23′W) {NEA}	By trawl	Architeuthis harveyi (Kent, 1874); Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 [fide Stephen (1962:154)]	Entire	Tentacles and one arm		BL: ~7 ft (2.1 m); AL: 92 cm; TL: 368 + 421 cm	NMSZ; catalog no. 1977107.1	Stephen (1937:131); Heppell & Smith (1983:34)	Stephen (1944:264); Rees (1950:40); Stephen (1962:154); Collins (1998:489)	Captured alive in trawl, tentacles and one arm cut off and remainder discarded. Date of capture incorrect in Heppell & Smith (1983).
113	22 July 1937	Petone, Wellington, New Zealand {SWP}	Not stated		Not specified	Undetermined		TL: 22 ft (6.7 m)		Dell (1952:98)	Press Association message 22 July 1937
114 (📷)	October 1938	~0.5 mi (0.80 km) north of Ravenscar, England {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis sp.?	Entire?	Beak		?EL: 16 ft (4.9 m); "tentacles [arms?] as thick as a man's arm"	BMNH	Clarke (1939:136, fig.); Eyden (2020, fig. 7)	Spaul (1956:63)	Found on rocky coast by local man named Shippey, who removed beak and took it home; portion of remaining body cut up as fishermen's bait. Beak obtained by W.J. Clarke (through E.A. Wallis) and passed onto the Natural History Museum, London, where G. J. Crawford of the Mollusca Department identified it as Architeuthis without suggesting a species.
	1939	Norway {NEA}	Not stated		Map location only					Sivertsen (1955:11, fig. 4)		Possibly the same as #115.
115	10 October 1939	near Tromsø, Norway {NEA}	"killed by fishermen"					EL: >13 m; TL: 8.7 m; BC: 3 m [maximum]; AL: 3.1 m [longest]; WT: >1000 kg [estimate]		Wood (1982:191)	Ellis (1998a:261)	Gerald L. Wood called it "the largest known Architeuthis" from Norway. Not weighed; mass estimate attributed to "Karl Basilier, pers. comm.". Possibly the same as #114.
116	February 1941	Susa Bay, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan {NWP}	Not stated	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undetermined		ML: ~1.5 m; WT: ~180 kg		Tanaka (1950); Nishimura (1968:75)
117	1941–1978	Sea of Japan; various locations {NWP}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis martensi (Hilgendorf, 1880)	20 specimens; entire	Undetermined		None		Okiyama (1993:408, fig. 6)		Summary of Sea of Japan strandings.
118	1945	Pahau River Mouth, Wellington East Coast, New Zealand {SWP}	Found washed ashore		Entire	Undetermined		WT: >1 ton		Dell (1952:98)
119	1946	Vikebukt, Norway {NEA}	Undetermined	Architeuthis sp.	Map location only	Undetermined				Sivertsen (1955:11, fig. 4)
120 (📷)	September 1946	Romsdalsfjord, Romsdal, Norway {NEA}	Seen swimming around fjord; later found washed ashore	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undetermined		EL: 9.35 m; other measurements		Myklebust (1946:377, fig. 1)	Sivertsen (1955:11, map); Ellis (1998a:20)	It has been suggested that a "sea serpent" reported from the same fjord by [Anonymous] (1849:264) (based on 28 July 1845 sighting; description attributed to Reverend Mr. Deinboll, archdeacon of Molde) may have been a giant squid (Myklebust, 1946; Ellis, 1998a:20).
	18 November and 5 December 1947	South Atlantic (56°45′00″S 03°49′59″E) {SEA}	From sperm whale stomachs	Architeuthis dux	Not stated, but from two whales			None given	Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands; catalog no. RMNH.MOL.92235 & 111017	[Naturalis] (2015a); [Naturalis] (2017)		From whale nos. 17 and 61; collected by W. Vervoort. Preserved in 70% alcohol.
121	mid-September 1948	Wingan Inlet, Victoria, Australia {SWP}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire, tentacles largely missing, arms "mutilated and torn off"; poor condition	Head with arms and tail with fins		EL: 14 ft (4.3 m) [partial, on arrival at museum], ~20 ft (6.1 m) [when found]; BL: 7 ft 8 in (2.34 m); HL: 1 ft 6 in (0.46 m); TL: 4 ft (1.2 m) [partial]; TC: 4 in (10 cm) [stalk]; AL: 4 ft (1.2 m) [partial]; AC: 8–10.5 in (20–27 cm); ASD: ≤1 in (2.5 cm); EyD: 7 in (18 cm); other measurements	AMS?	Allan (1948:306)	Zeidler (1996:7); Zeidler & Gowlett-Homes (1996:85)	CSIR Fisheries Division at Cronulla notified about specimen by Mr. W. Warn. Shipment of specimen from Eden to Australian Museum arranged by Lucy M. Willings of CSIR. Gladius and internal organs removed prior to reposit.
122	7 September 1949	Hirtshals, Denmark {NEA}	Not stated	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	Undetermined		?WL: 1.75 m ["totallaengde uden fangarme"; "total length without tentacles"]		Muus (1959:170)
123	2 October 1949	Whalefirth Voe, Shetland, Scotland (60°35′N 01°10′W) {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Jaws and sucker rings; remainder cut up for bait		BL: ~4 ft (1.2 m); AL: ~6 ft (1.8 m); TL: ~20 ft (6.1 m)	NMSZ; catalog nos. 1950.2 + 1950.3	Stephen (1950:52); Heppell & Smith (1983:33)	Collins (1998:489)	Jaw, description, and sketch sent by Dr. Petersen and two suckers sent by Mr. J. Inkster to NMSZ.
124 (📷)	30 November 1949	Bay of Nigg, Aberdeen, Scotland {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis sp. [fide Rae (1950)]; Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 [fide Stephen (1962)]	Entire	Undetermined; entire?	Female	ML: 117 cm; HL: 28 cm; FL: 44.5 cm; FW: 37.5 cm; extensive additional measurements and description	?Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, Scotland. Stephen (1962) specimen No. 2	Rae (1950:163, pls. 20–21)	Aberdeen Bon-Accord and Northern Pictorial; Hardy (1956:pl. 22); Stephen (1962:148); Boyle (1986:82); Collins (1998:489)
126	22 August 1951	270 miles (430 km) W of Shpanberg Id., at surface {NWP}	Observed alive only	Architeuthis japonicus	Two squid	Observation only		TL: 10–12 m [estimate]	None	Sleptsov (1955:75)		Thought to be avoiding sperm whales by staying at surface.
127	14 December 1951	Angus, East Haven, Scotland {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis harveyi	Entire	Jaws, radula, and piece of arm with suckers		ML: 4 ft 9 in (1.45 m)	Undetermined	Stephen (1953:121)	Collins (1998:489)	Mutilated prior to examination.
128	January 1952	Carnoustie, Scotland {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis sp.	Not specified	Undetermined		None		Hardy (1956:287)
129	12 June 1952	off Sao Lourenco, Madeira Island {NEA}	From sperm whale stomach, vomited up	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	"Fragments"		EL: 10,600 mm; ML: 1,860 mm; TL: 8,500 mm; AL: 2,800 mm; BC: 1,360 mm; TC: 330 mm; WT: 150 kg	MMF	Rees & Maul (1956:266)	Clarke (1962:173)	Still exhibited some signs of life after being vomited.
130	1952	Florida Keys, Florida, United States (Straits of Florida) (25°35.4′N 80°05.8′W) {NWA}	Found floating at surface	Architeuthis dux	"large, mutilated"			ML: 36 in (91 cm)	RSMAS; catalog no. UMML 31.189 [specimen No. 1 of Roper et al. (2015)]	Voss (1996); Roper et al. (2015:80)	Ellis (1998a:261)
[4]	1952 (summer)	near Bonin Islands, western Pacific {NWP}	From "digestive canal" of sperm whale	Architeuthis japonica? Pfeffer, 1912; Psychroteuthidae? [fide Roper & Young (1972:220)]	Entire; two specimens	Undetermined		ML: 92 mm + 104 mm; extensive additional measurements and description	?Laboratory of Fisheries Zoology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo	Iwai (1956:139, pls. 1–5); Roper & Young (1972:220)	Ellis (1998a:121)	Non-architeuthid. Based on the original illustrations and written description, Roper & Young (1972:220) wrote: "the specimens appear to be members of the Psychroteuthidae". Ellis (1998a:121) gives erroneous total length of "8 feet [2.4 m]" for the larger specimen (though correctly given as "8 inches [20 cm]" by Ellis, 1994a:145); mistake repeated by Glaubrecht & Salcedo-Vargas (2004:67), giving rise to the claim of an implausibly large psychroteuthid "with about three meter total length".
131	1953	Norway {NEA}	Not stated		Map location only					Sivertsen (1955:11, fig. 4)
132	1954	off Mississippi Delta, Gulf of Mexico {NWA}	Found floating at surface, dead	Architeuthis physeteris (Joubin, 1899); Architeuthis dux	Entire, in poor condition	Beak and spermatophore	Male (mature)	ML: 61.2 cm; extensive description	RSMAS; catalog no. UMML 31.99 [specimen No. 2 of Roper et al. (2015)]	Voss (1956:136, fig. 10); Roper et al. (2015:80)	Roper & Young (1972:220); Toll & Hess (1981b:753); Aldrich (1991:476); Melvin (2009)	Mature male with spermatophores.
133	1954	Skagerrak, Denmark {NEA}		Architeuthis	Entire?	Entire?, both tentacles loose	Male (mature?)	ML: 1035 mm; TL: 4480/3800 mm; CL: 620/695 mm; CSC: 248/248; TSC: 276/271; additional indices and counts	ZMUC [specimen NA-3 of Roeleveld (2002)]	Roeleveld (2002:727)		Tentacle morphology examined by Roeleveld (2002).
134	January 1954	Kie Kie Bay, Kaikoura, New Zealand {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Photographs held by NIWA					Förch (1998:105)
135	22 June 1954	1 sea mile (~1850 m) north of Skaw (Skagerack), Denmark {NEA}	Found alive on surface	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Entire?, left tentacle loose	Male (mature)	ML: 1010 mm [970 mm fide Roeleveld (2002:727)]; VML: 940 mm; HL: 275 mm; TL: 4900 mm [4585/4785 mm fide Roeleveld (2002:729)]; CL: 605/780 mm; AL(I): 800 mm; AL(IV): 1470/1530 mm; LAL: 1530 mm; HeL: 90/130 mm [IV pair]; PL: 780 mm; SSL: 155 mm; SoA: no obs.; SL: 110–180 mm; CSC: 255/265; TSC: 286/280; additional indices and counts	ZMUC [specimen NA-6 of Roeleveld (2002)]	Knudsen (1957:189, figs. 1–5); Roeleveld (2002:727); Guerra et al. (2004b:8)	Kjennerud (1958:1); Muus (1959:170); Stephen (1962:155); Roper & Young (1972:220); Toll & Hess (1981b:753); Aldrich (1991:476)	Discovered by fishermen. Mature male with spermatophores and both ventral arms hectocotylised; colour notes. Tentacle morphology examined by Roeleveld (2002).
136	30 July 1954	Ranheim, Trondheim Fjord, Norway {NEA}	Not stated	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	Undetermined		EL: 7.5 m; BL: 1.3 m; AL: 1.9 m [shorter]; TL: 6.2 m		Sivertsen (1955:5); Knudsen (1956)
137 (📷)	2 October 1954	Ranheim, Trondheim Fjord, Norway {NEA}	Stranded	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	Entire, left tentacle loose	Female?	EL: 9.24 m; BL: 2.14 m; AL: 1.9 m [shorter]; TL: 7.1 m [left]; ML: 1.79 m; MW: 0.57 m; FL: 0.52 m; FW: 0.18 m [each]; TSD: 2.6 cm; ASD: 1.5 cm; CL: 820 mm [left]; CSC: 254 [left]; TSC: >275 [left]; LRL: 15.6 mm; URL: n/a; additional beak measurements, indices, and counts	VSM; VSM 156 [specimen NA-17 of Roeleveld (2000) and Roeleveld (2002)]	Broch (1954:145, fig.); Sivertsen (1955:5, fig. 1); Roeleveld (2000:185); Roeleveld (2002:727)	Clarke (1966:fig. 4)	Much-reproduced photograph shows specimen being measured by Professors Erling Sivertsen and Svein Haftorn. Beak morphometrics studied by Roeleveld (2000). Tentacle morphology examined by Roeleveld (2002). According to Broch (1954) it was stranded on 3 October and found on 4 October, and was 16th specimen recorded from Norway.
138 (📷)	4 July 1955	off Porto Pim, Faial Island, Azores Islands (38°21′N 29°08′W) {NEA}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undesignated anatomical material		ML: 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m); BD: 1 ft 11 in (0.58 m); EL: 34 ft 5 in (10.49 m); WL: 16 ft 3 in (4.95 m); TL: 26 ft 8 in (8.13 m); LAL: 9 ft (2.7 m); EyD: 7+2⁄5 in (0.19 m) [left]; WT: 405 lb (184 kg)	National Institute of Oceanography	Clarke (1955:589, 5 figs.); Clarke (1956a:645)	van Bruggen (1956:641) [NB: gives erroneous metric conversions]; Clarke (1956b:257, pl. 2 fig. 2); Budker (1959); see discussion	Squid swallowed whole by 47 ft (14 m) sperm whale (no. F346). Examined at Porto Pim whaling station. Budker (1959) states: "This is probably the only complete specimen of such an animal to be collected under these conditions." Considered by Paxton (2016a:83) as specimen with the longest "definitely measured" mantle length (less reliably #153), standard length, and total length (though see discredited size of #208) of any giant squid recovered from a sperm whale.
139	Unknown (reported 1956)	off Fowey Rocks, Florida, United States {NWA}	Found floating at surface	Architeuthis princeps or Architeuthis harveyi	Entire, mutilated	Undetermined		?EL: 47 ft (14 m) [fide Rathjen (1973:24)]	RSMAS [fide Rathjen (1973:24)]; no longer extant [fide Voss (1956:138)]	Voss (1956:138)	Rathjen (1973:24, fig. 7)	Taken by the vessel Silver Bay.
140	12 May 1956	about a mile north of Mākara Stream, Wellington west coast, New Zealand {SWP}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis kirki Robson, 1887	Entire, missing tentacles	Entire?		ML: 1829 mm; WT: 127.9 kg; extensive additional measurements and description	Dominion Museum [NMNZ]	Dell (1970:27, figs. 1–8)	Roper & Young (1972:216)	Arm suckers had no sucker rings (fide Dell, 1970); likely dissolved after preservation in formalin per Roper & Young (1972:216).
[5]	1956/1957	South Orkney Islands (59°41′S 44°14′W) {SWA}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.; Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni Robson, 1925	Head and mantle	Undetermined		HL: 30 cm; HW: 20 cm; EyD: 16–17 cm; ?EL: ~12 m		Korabelnikov (1959:103); Yukhov (1974:62)		Non-architeuthid. Initial identification by I.I. Akimushkin. From 15.8 m long male sperm whale.
[6]	1956/1957	South Shetland Islands (61°56′S 52°39′W) {SWA}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.; Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni Robson, 1925	Fin only	Undetermined		FL: 41 cm; FW: 48 cm; ?EL: ~10 m		Korabelnikov (1959:103); Yukhov (1974:62)		Non-architeuthid. Initial identification by I.I. Akimushkin. From 15 m long male sperm whale.
141	1 February 1957	six miles (10 km) north by east from Rattray Head, Aberdeenshire, Scotland {NEA}	By trawl	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	Entire		EL: 23 ft 11 in (7.29 m); ML: 940 mm; BD: 343 mm; TL: 4750 mm [right]; CL: 559 mm [right]; HL: 279 mm; FL: 305 mm; FW: 305 mm	NMSZ; catalog no. 1957.20. Stephen specimen No. 3	Stephen et al. (1957:181); Stephen (1962:152, text-fig. 6, pl. 1 fig. 2); Heppell & Smith (1983:33)	Collins (1998:489)	Received from trawler Viking Prestige almost complete, but poorly preserved.
142	14 December 1957	Misaki, Oki Islands, Japan {NWP}	Not stated	?Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undetermined		None		Hamabe (1957); Nishimura (1968:75)
143	4 February 1958	Ashiya, Hamasaka-machi, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan {NWP}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undetermined		?EL: 4.1 m; WT: ~150 kg		Kamita (1962); Nishimura (1968:75)
144	7 February 1958	off Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan {NWP}	Not stated	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undetermined		?EL: ~6 m; WT: 170 kg		Kamita (1962); Nishimura (1968:75)
145	3 March 1958	Sandane, Nordfjord, Norway {NEA}	Not stated	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Entire	Male (mature)	ML: 100 cm; WT: 48 kg; more VML: 87 cm; BC: 80 cm; FL: 28–32 cm; FW: 26/33 cm; HL: 30–32 cm; HW: 25 cm; AL(I): 126+ cm; AL(II): 143+ cm; AL(III): 126+ cm; AL(IV): 164 cm; LAL: 164 cm; AC(I): 16 cm; AC(II): 20 cm; AC(III): 22 cm; AC(IV): 22 cm; HeL: 5–6 cm [IV pair]; AF: 4.3.2.1; TaL: 10 cm; FuL: 14 cm; FuD: 7 cm; FuCL: 12 cm; FuCW: 2.5 cm; PL: 92 cm; SoA: yes; LRL: 1.2 cm; URL: 1.5 cm	ZMUB	Kjennerud (1958:1, figs. 1–9); Guerra et al. (2004b:8)	van Bruggen (1959:857); Toll & Hess (1981b:753)	Spermatophore and colour notes. Fins appeared to be slightly asymmetrical.
146	1958	northeast sector, Bahamas {NWA}	Found floating at surface	Architeuthis dux	Entire, "nearly intact whole specimen"	Arm parts	Female	EL: 1433.5 cm	RSMAS; catalog no. UMML 31.2938 [specimen No. 3 of Roper et al. (2015)]	Voss (1967); Roper et al. (2015:80)	Ellis (1998a:261)
147	August 1959	off Madeira Island {NEA}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undetermined		?EL: 2.5 m		Clarke (1962:173, fig. 1A)	Toll & Hess (1981b:754)	From male sperm whale.
148	January?, 1960	Lonja de Aviles, Asturias, Spain {NEA}	Not specified	Architeuthis dux	Not specified	Returned to the sea		WT: 100 kg		Guerra et al. (2006:258)
149	6 February 1960	Arahama, Kashiwazaki-shi, Niigata Prefecture, Japan {NWP}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undetermined		ML: 1.3 m; ?EL: 3.5 m; WT: 112 kg		Nishimura (1960:214); Nishimura (1968:75)
150	23 January 1961	Oi, Hirata-shi, Shimane Prefecture, Japan {NWP}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undetermined		?EL: 2.6 m; WT: 41.2 kg		Kamita (1962); Nishimura (1968:75)
151	18 February 1961	Câmara de Lobos, Madeira Island {NEA}	From fish stomach, Alepisaurus cf. ferox	Architeuthis sp. A	Entire	Entire	Female (juvenile)	ML: 57 mm [56 mm fide Roeleveld (2002:727)]; VML: 54 mm; MW: 12 mm; FL: 20 mm; FW: 15 mm; HL: 17 mm; HW: 11 mm; GiL: 16 mm; AL(I): 47 mm; AL(II): 59 mm; AL(III): 58 mm; AL(IV): 58 mm; TL: 90 mm [TL: 80 mm [left] fide Roeleveld (2002:729)]; CL: 25 mm; ASD(I): 0.96 mm; ASD(II): 1.04 mm; ASD(III): 0.96 mm; ASD(IV): 0.64 mm; CSD: 0.96 mm/0.40 mm (medial/marginal); LRL: 1.0 mm; URL: 1.2 mm; extensive description and additional counts, indices, and beak measurements	NMNH cat. no. 727508 [specimen NA-34 of Roeleveld (2002)]	Roper & Young (1972:206, figs. 1a–c, 2–4, 5a); Roper (1992:99, figs. 160a–c); Roeleveld (2002:727)	Nesis et al. (1985:526); Roper & Shea (2013:116)	From stomach of lancetfish No. 18123, captured on tuna long-line at 50–150 m depth and supplied by G. E. Maul. Squid's greatly distended stomach contained largely unidentifiable material with some small fragments of fish bones. Sucker rings missing; likely degraded by digestive juices or formalin fixative. Tentacle morphology examined by Roeleveld (2002).
152	April–July 1961	near Commander Islands and western Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea {NWP}	From sperm whale stomachs	Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Combined beak samples	Undetermined		Percentage of whale diet		Kodolov (1970:[158])		From sperm whales sampled in several different whaling regions of Soviet whaling flotilla Aleut during the 1961 season.
153	August 1961	Sao Miguel, Azores Islands {NEA}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undetermined		ML: 2.4 m; [?]AL: 4.4 m; WL: 6.8 m		Keil (1963:320, figs. 3–5)		From 16 m sperm whale. Considered by Paxton (2016a:83) as possibly greatest measured mantle length of any giant squid recovered from a sperm whale (more reliably #138), though he wrote: "the account is confused and the 2.4 m figure probably refers to the head and ML combined".
154	16 September 1961	off central California, United States {NEP}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Beaks	One upper beak		None	NMML 110	Fiscus (1993:92)		From male sperm whale (specimen no. Rice-535).
155	December 1961	King's Cove, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Not stated	Architeuthis sp.	Entire?	None		"small"	Undetermined	Aldrich (1968); Aldrich (1991:459)
156	April–July 1962	near Commander Islands and western Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea {NWP}	From sperm whale stomachs	Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Combined beak samples	Undetermined		Percentage of whale diet		Kodolov (1970:[158])		From sperm whales sampled in several different whaling regions of Soviet whaling flotilla Aleut during the 1962 season.
157	23 June 1962	Durban Whaling Station, South Africa {SIO}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.	Body only	Undetermined	Male	FL: 40 cm; FW: 28 cm	None?; Clarke specimen No. 6	Clarke (1980:67)		From sperm whale number A956.
158	1962	Donkergat Whaling Station, South Africa {SEA}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.	Head only	Undetermined		TL: 176 cm	Undetermined; Clarke specimen No. 1	Clarke (1980:67, text-fig. 37A)
159	1962	Las Tiberas, Asturias, Spain {NEA}	Not specified	Architeuthis dux	Not specified	Not specified		TL: 6 m		Guerra et al. (2006:258)
	12 November 1962	off east coast of Florida, United States (Straits of Florida) (25°45′N 80°00′W; given as "25°45'N 80°W") {NWA}	Found floating at surface	Architeuthis sp.; Architeuthis dux	Entire	Gladius	Male (mature)	ML: 66.4 cm; EL 7.0 m	RSMAS; catalog no. UMML 31.1762 [specimen No. 4 of Roper et al. (2015)]	Toll & Hess (1981b:753); Roper et al. (2015:80)	Roper & Young (1972:220)
160	13 June 1963	Durban Whaling Station, South Africa {SIO}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.	Head only	Undetermined		HL: 19 cm; HW: 15 cm; WT: 19 kg	None?; Clarke specimen No. 2	Clarke (1980:67)		From sperm whale number D1500.
161	15 June 1963	off central California, United States {NEP}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Beaks	One upper beak		None	NMML; catalog no. 111	Fiscus (1993:92)		From male sperm whale (specimen no. Rice-813).
162	1963	Donkergat Whaling Station, South Africa {SEA}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.	Body only	Undetermined	Female	ML: 66.5 cm; MW: 24 cm; FL: 29 cm; FW: 16 cm	Undetermined; Clarke specimen No. 3	Clarke (1980:67, text-fig. 37B)		From sperm whale no. 2271.
163	13 August 1963	Durban Whaling Station, South Africa {SIO}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undetermined		ML: ~70 cm; HL: ~23 cm; FL: ~30 cm; FW: ~22 cm	None?; Clarke specimen No. 5	Clarke (1980:67, text-fig. 37A)		From sperm whale number 2258.
164	August?, 1963	Cook Strait, New Zealand {SWP}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.	One beak	Undetermined		None		Gaskin & Cawthorn (1967:170)		From New Zealand whaling station; specimen No. 63 of 1963–1964 season.
165	17 December 1963	off Chile, South America (19°51′S 95°09′W) {SEP}	From fish stomach, "very probably Alepisaurus"	Architeuthis sp. B	Entire, sucker rings degraded and missing	Entire	Male (juvenile)	ML: 45 mm; VML: 43 mm; MW: 8 mm; FL: 14 mm; FW: 11 mm; HL: 11 mm; HW: 9 mm; GiL: 14 mm; AL(I): 20 mm; AL(II): 27 mm; AL(III): 27 mm; AL(IV): 28 mm; TL: 33 mm; CL: 14 mm; ASD(I): 0.72 mm; ASD(II): 0.88 mm; ASD(III): 0.80 mm; ASD(IV): 0.56 mm; CSD: 0.56 mm/0.24 mm (medial/marginal); extensive description and additional counts and indices	NMNH; catalog no. 727509	Roper & Young (1972:206, figs. 1d–e, 5b); Roper (1992:99, figs. 160d–e)	Nesis et al. (1985:526); Roper & Shea (2013:116)	From lancetfish captured on long-line at 80–150 m depth by R/V Shoyo Maru (Cruise 13, Fish Station 17). Squid specimen and capture information supplied by Witek L. Klawe. Stomach found to be empty. Sucker rings missing; likely degraded by digestive juices or formalin fixative.
166	23 April 1964	Durban Whaling Station, South Africa {SIO}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.	Body only	Undetermined		ML: 58 cm; MW: 19 cm; FL: 23 cm; FW: 11.5 cm	None?; Clarke specimen No. 4	Clarke (1980:67)		From sperm whale number 2418.
167	1964	Southeastern Atlantic Ocean {SEA}	From sperm whale stomachs	Architeuthis sp.	Map locations only					Yukhov (1974:61, fig.)		Multiple records from sperm whales with generalised data on distribution, depth, and sex.
168	1964	Southwestern Pacific Ocean {SWP}	From sperm whale stomachs	Architeuthis sp.	Map locations only	Undetermined				Yukhov (1974:61, fig.)		Multiple records from sperm whales with generalised data on distribution, depth, and sex.
169	1964	Southwestern Indian Ocean {SIO}	From sperm whale stomachs	Architeuthis sp.	Map locations only					Yukhov (1974:61, fig.)		Multiple records from sperm whales with generalised data on distribution, depth, and sex.
170	23 October 1964	Conche, White Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found floating at surface	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	Beaks, gladius, arms, and tentacles	Female	ML: 185 cm; additional measurements and description	MUDB; Aldrich specimen No. 1	Aldrich (1991:461, figs. 3–4)	Aldrich & Brown (1967:4, figs.); Aldrich (1968:395); Aldrich & Aldrich (1968:845, figs. 1–3); Pippy & Aldrich (1969); Oreskes (2003:717, fig. 3)	Cestode found in caecum by Pippy & Aldrich (1969). Tentacular regeneration documented by Aldrich & Aldrich (1968); one of two published records of limb regeneration in architeuthids (as identified by Imperadore & Fiorito, 2018), the other being a case of arm and sucker regeneration in #54. Frederick Aldrich included a photo of this specimen in a 1965 letter to Paul Fye, director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, proposing to use DSV Alvin to study the giant squid in its natural habitat (Oreskes, 2003:717).
171	5 December 1964	Chapel Arm, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found dead on bottom	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	None; discarded	Female	ML: 126 cm; additional measurements and description	None; Aldrich specimen No. 2	Aldrich (1991:466, fig. 5)	Aldrich (1968:395)	Possibly seen alive in September on several occasions.
	1960s	Bahamas (Straits of Florida) (25°45′N 79°15′W) {NWA}	Found floating at surface	Architeuthis dux	"head, beaks, eye lens"			"large"	RSMAS; catalog no. UMML 31.642 [specimen No. 7 of Roper et al. (2015)]	Roper et al. (2015:80)		Yoshikawa (2014) writes: "A 14-meter-long giant squid caught off the Bahamas in the Atlantic in 1966 is the largest ever confirmed."
172	25 March 1965	Skagen, Denmark {NEA}		Architeuthis			Female (immature)	ML: 1190 mm; TL: 5495/5307 mm; CL: 745/722 mm; CSC: 272; [left] TSC: 300 [left]; additional indices and counts	ZMUC [specimen NA-1 of Roeleveld (2002)]	Roeleveld (2002:727)		Tentacle morphology examined by Roeleveld (2002).
173	29 September 1965	Newman's Cove, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Not stated	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Portion of mantle, tail, and viscera	None; discarded	Female	ML: 1.37 m [estimate]	None; Aldrich specimen No. 3	Aldrich (1991:467)	Aldrich (1968:395)
174	8 October 1965	Lance Cove, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found floating at surface	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	Parts (unspecified)	Female	ML: 127 cm; additional measurements	MUDB; Aldrich specimen No. 4	Aldrich (1991:469, fig. 6)	Voss (1967:407, fig.); Aldrich & Brown (1967:6, fig.); Aldrich (1968:395, fig. 2); [MIT] (2006)	Used in Francis O. Schmitt's animal nerve cell research in 1965 ([MIT], 2006).
175	24 November 1965	Springdale Beach, Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	None; discarded		ML: 161 cm; BL(+HL?): 2.13 m; TL: 3.66 m; GL: 147 cm; additional measurements	None; Aldrich specimen No. 5	Aldrich (1991:469, fig. 7)	Aldrich (1968:395)
176	22 June 1966	off "Vigo, Spain" (41°32′N 9°48′W) {NEA}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.	Lower beak	Undetermined		Description only		Clarke & MacLeod (1974:962, fig. 4)
177	around 10 October 1966	Skagerrak, north of Skagen, Denmark {NEA}		Architeuthis			Female (immature)	ML: 1115 mm; TL: 4605 mm [right]; CL: 660 mm [right]; CSC: 250 [right]; TSC: 284 [right]; additional indices and counts	ZMUC [specimen NA-2 of Roeleveld (2002)]	Roeleveld (2002:727)		Tentacle morphology examined by Roeleveld (2002).
178	9 November 1966	Sweet Bay, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Not stated	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire; tentacles missing and arms incomplete	Entire	Female	ML: 142 cm; additional measurements and description	MUDB; Aldrich specimen No. 6	Aldrich (1991:470)	Aldrich & Brown (1967:8, fig.); Aldrich (1968:395)	Aldrich (1968:395) gives date as 11 November.
179	24 November 1966	Wild Cove, Fogo Island, Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire, badly mutilated	None; discarded	Female	ML: 107 cm; additional measurements	None; Aldrich specimen No. 7	Aldrich (1991:471)	Aldrich (1968:395)
180	25 November 1966	off central California, United States {NEP}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Beaks	One upper beak		None	NMML; catalog no. 112	Fiscus (1993:92)		From male sperm whale (specimen no. Rice-1966-165).
181	28 November 1966	Eddie's Cove East, Strait of Belle Isle, Newfoundland {NWA}	Not stated	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire, putrefied	None; discarded		None	None; Aldrich specimen No. 8	Aldrich (1991:471)	Aldrich (1968:395)
182	1 December 1966	off central California, United States {NEP}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Beaks	One lower beak fragment		None	NMML; catalog no. 113	Fiscus (1993:92)		From female sperm whale (specimen no. Rice-1966-177).
183	9 December 1966	off central California, United States {NEP}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Beaks	One upper beak		None	NMML; catalog no. 114	Fiscus (1993:92)		From male sperm whale (specimen no. Rice-1966-185).
184	12 May 1967	off central California, United States {NEP}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Beaks	One pair of beaks		None	NMML; catalog no. 115	Fiscus & Rice (1974:92, fig. 1); Fiscus et al. (1989:6); Fiscus (1993:93)		From female sperm whale (specimen no. Rice-1967-128).
185	6 June 1967	off Iceland (64E50'N, 29E30'W) {NEA}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.	Seven beaks	Undetermined		Specimen weights estimated		Clarke & MacLeod (1976:742)		From 53 ft (16 m) male sperm whale (no. 121).
186	July–August 1967	in Denmark Strait {NEA}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.	Beaks (as percentage of diet)					Martin & Clarke (1986:785)	Roe (1969:93) as unidentified beaks	From 57 male sperm whales processed at Hvalur H.F. whaling station on west coast of Iceland.
187	22 July – 23 August 1967	off Iceland {NEA}	From sperm whale stomachs	Architeuthis sp.	Two beaks	Undetermined		Specimen weights estimated		Clarke & MacLeod (1976:742)		Mixed samples from stomachs of five male sperm whales 47–53 ft (14–16 m) long.
188	23 April 1968	off central California, United States {NEP}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Beaks	One upper beak		None	NMML; catalog no. 116	Fiscus (1993:93)		From female sperm whale (specimen no. Rice-1968-108).
189	23 April 1968	off central California, United States {NEP}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Beaks	One upper beak fragment		None	NMML; catalog no. 117	Fiscus (1993:93)		From male sperm whale (specimen no. Rice-1968-109).
190	14 May 1968	Tokyo Bay, off Miura Peninsula, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan {NWP}	Found stranded on beach	Architeuthis	Entire?	Single tentacle?		EL: 6 m; WT: 35 kg; TL: 3200 mm [length of single extant tentacle]	Keikyu Aburatsubo Marine Park	Suyehiro (1968); Kubodera & Yamada (2001:238)	[Anonymous] (2014b)	Stranded on Miura beach two days before Tokachi earthquake of 16 May 1968. Single tentacle deposited at Keikyu Aburatsubo Marine Park may belong to this specimen; see Kubodera & Yamada (2001:238).
	15 May 1968	South Shore, Bermuda {NWA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis dux	Entire?	Entire?		ML: ~70 cm; EyD: 20 cm	BAMZ 2007 254 015 [specimen No. 5 of Roper et al. (2015)]	Roper et al. (2015:80)		"Suckers in 2 rows only" (Roper et al., 2015:80).
191	1968	Puerto de Vega, Asturias, Spain {NEA}	Caught by ship	Architeuthis dux	Entire?	Beak		?EL: 7 m		Guerra et al. (2006:258)		Caught by the ship Matías Bengoechea.
192	July–November 1968	off central California, United States ("Region II"; 34°34'–36°N 121°–123°W) {NEP}	From fish stomach, Thunnus alalunga (albacore)	Architeuthidae, Unidentified sp.	One specimen; beaks?			None		Iverson (1971:14, 34)	Roper & Young (1972:221)	Single architeuthid specimen from 905 examined albacore stomachs (of which 286 from "Region II").
193	9 June 1969	east of Lake Worth, Florida, United States (Straits of Florida) (coordinates given as "26°70'N 80°W" [sic]) {NWA}	Found floating at surface	Architeuthis dux	"head, base of arms only"			"large"	RSMAS; catalog no. UMML 31.675 [specimen No. 6 of Roper et al. (2015)]	Voss (1996); Roper et al. (2015:80)	Ellis (1998a:262)
194	13 June 1969	off central California, United States {NEP}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Beaks	One upper beak		None	NMML; catalog no. 118	Fiscus (1993:93)		From female sperm whale (specimen no. Rice-1969-143).
195	1969	Las Tiberas, Asturias, Spain {NEA}	Caught by ship	Architeuthis dux	Tentacle			TL: 6 m		Guerra et al. (2006:258)		Caught by the ship Saturno Juan.
196	10 July 1969	Luanco (Gozón), Asturias, Spain {NEA}	Caught by sport fishermen	Architeuthis dux	Entire?			WT: 250 kg		Guerra et al. (2006:258)		Caught by sport fishermen from Oviedo. Heaviest recorded giant squid from Asturias.
197	1969	Puerto de Figueras, Asturias, Spain {NEA}	Recovered dead	Architeuthis dux	Entire?			?EL: 7.90 m; WT: 120 kg		Guerra et al. (2006:258)		Recovered dead by José Manuel Méndez and Bote Carducha.
198	19 November 1969	off central California, United States {NEP}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Beaks	One lower beak fragment		None	NMML; catalog no. 119	Fiscus (1993:93)		From male sperm whale (specimen no. Rice-1969-201).
199	24 February 1970	off central California, United States {NEP}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Beaks	One lower beak fragment		None	NMML; catalog no. 120	Fiscus (1993:94)		From male sperm whale (specimen no. Rice-1970-001).
200	11 October 1970	San Juan, Puerto Rico (Caribbean Sea) (18°32′N 66°05′W) {NWA}	Found floating at surface	Architeuthis dux	Entire?	Beaks		?ML: 85.1 cm	RSMAS; catalog no. UMML 31.851 [specimen No. 8 of Roper et al. (2015)]	Voss (1996); Roper et al. (2015:80)	Ellis (1998a:262)
201	18 September 1970	off Saint-Pierre Island, Grand Banks, Atlantic Ocean {NWA}	By trawl	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	Entire		None	FOSJ; Aldrich specimen No. 9	Aldrich (1991:471)		Presented by Government of France in October 1970.
202	31 October 1970	near Azores Islands (38°34′N 28°11′W) {NEA}	From shark stomach, Centroscymnus coelolepis	Architeuthis sp.	"Flesh"	Undetermined		None		Clarke & Merrett (1972:601)
203	November 1970	Tasman Sea {SWP}	From sperm whale stomachs	Architeuthis sp.	One entire; 54 lower beaks	Undetermined	Female	ML: 41.5 cm; BC: 26 cm; AL: 32–49.5 cm; TL: 140 cm; FL: 20 cm; FW: 8 cm; plus estimates of other specimen weights from beaks		Clarke & MacLeod (1982:34)		Combined data from stomachs of 66 sperm whales taken at various locations in the Tasman Sea.
204	30 December 1970	off Botany Bay, New South Wales, eastern Australia {SWP}	From shortfin mako shark stomach, Isurus oxyrinchus	Architeuthis sp.	Beak	Undetermined		ML: 567 mm [estimate]		Dunning et al. (1993:129)
205	November–April 1970 – 1973	southeastern Atlantic Ocean (30°–43°S) {SEA}	From sperm whale stomachs	Architeuthis sp.	Stomach contents	Undetermined		None		Vovk et al. (1975[1978:131])		Specimens from sperm whales taken on 3 cruises (14 stations) of Antarctic whaling factory ship Yury Dolgoruky during November to April 1970 – 1973.
206	November–April 1970 – 1973	Atlantic sector of Southern Ocean {SEA}	From sperm whale stomachs	Architeuthis sp.	Stomach contents	Undetermined		None		Vovk et al. (1975[1978:131])		Specimens from sperm whales taken on 3 cruises (42 stations) of Antarctic whaling factory ship Yury Dolgoruky during November to April 1970 – 1973.
207	March 1971	Carrandi, Asturias, Spain {NEA}	Not specified	Architeuthis dux	Entire?			WT: 80 kg		Guerra et al. (2006:258)		Collected by the boat Divino San Antonio.
208	Unknown (reported 1971)	Indian Ocean {SIO}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undetermined		EL: 9 m [erroneously given as 19 m in Berzin (1971); see Romanov et al. (2017)]		Berzin (1971:[199, fig. 98])	Paxton (2016a:83); Romanov et al. (2017)	Taken from sperm whale stomach by whaling flotilla Sovetskaya Ukraina. Considered by Paxton (2016a:83) as possibly "longest measured" total length of any giant squid specimen (though more reliably that of #46 and 62), but this was based on the erroneous total length given in Berzin (1971).
209	18 November 1971	Sunnyside, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Not stated	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	Arms and tentacles only	Female	ML: 177 cm; additional measurements	MUDB; Aldrich specimen No. 10	Aldrich (1991:471, fig. 8A-B)
211	February 1972	Puerto de El Musel, Asturias, Spain {NEA}	Found floating at surface in visible state of decomposition	Architeuthis dux				?EL: ~3 m		Guerra et al. (2006:258)		Observed[?] by Martino Andres.
212	July 1972	near Rakautura, Kaikoura, New Zealand {SWP}	Found floating at surface	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Club suckers		TL: ~8 m	Lost	Förch (1998:106)	Dangerfield (2013)	Found by fishermen Gus and Ken Garbes. Could not be towed in due to bad weather; pieces cut off for use as bait.
213	1972	off Durban, South Africa {SIO}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Entire	Female	ML: 1450 mm; extensive additional measurements, illustrations, and description	SAM; catalog no. S1867	Roeleveld & Lipiński (1991:432, pls.)
214	1972	off Newfoundland {NWA}	By trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Entire		EL: 8.2 m; WT: 207 kg	Aquário Vasco da Gama, Lisbon	Marques (2002)		On public display. Exhibited at Aquário Vasco da Gama in Lisbon (see information document).
215	8 December 1972	eastern equatorial Atlantic (6°34′S 5°00′W) {SEA}	Found in stomach contents of blue shark (Prionace glauca)	Architeuthis sp.	Jaws plus pieces of mantle, arms, tentacle	Undetermined; beaks?		TL: 2 m [piece]; TSD: ~2 cm; ML: 70–75 cm [estimate]		Nigmatullin (1976:29, fig. 1)		From stomach of 2 m long blue shark.
216	14 May 1974	off Green Point light house, Table Bay, South Africa {SEA}	Found floating at surface, alive	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Entire	Female (maturing–mature?)	ML: 1700 mm; LRL: 16.7 mm; URL: 17.0 mm; extensive measurements, illustrations, and description	SAM; catalog no. S1868 [specimen SA-2 of Roeleveld (2000)]	Roeleveld & Lipiński (1991:433, pls.); Roeleveld (2000:185)		Found barely alive by Capt. Hennie Smith. Beak morphometrics studied by Roeleveld (2000).
217	October 1974	South African waters (28°S 14°11'E) {SEA}	By trawl; taken by fisheries vessel	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Piece of arm and tentacle		WT: 220 kg	SAM	Pérez-Gándaras & Guerra (1989:114)
218	18 February 1975	Verdalsøra, Trondheimsfjorden, Norway {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undetermined		TL: 7.96 m; WT: 68.9 kg		Holthe (1975:174)
219	28 October 1975	Bonavista, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	None; discarded	Male (mature)	ML: 132 cm; additional measurements	None; Aldrich specimen No. 11	Aldrich (1991:472, fig. 9A–D)	Aldrich (1980:57, fig. 3)	Mature male with hectocotylus and spermatophores.
220	26 January 1976	off Joban District, Japan (36°39′N 141°51′E) {NWP}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Tentacle only	Undetermined		None		Okutani et al. (1976:85)	Ohsumi & Satake (1976)	From 10.6 m long male sperm whale (no. 56).
221	26 January 1976	off Joban District, Japan (36°40′N 141°53′E) {NWP}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Tentacle only	Undetermined		None		Okutani et al. (1976:85)	Ohsumi & Satake (1976)	From 11.7 m long male sperm whale (no. 58).
222	3 February 1976	off Joban District, Japan (36°44′N 141°33′E) {NWP}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Entire	Undetermined		ML: 58.5 cm		Okutani et al. (1976:85, pl. 7)	Ohsumi & Satake (1976)	From 13.0 m long male sperm whale (no. 75).
223	4 February 1976	off Joban District, Japan (36°46′N 141°58′E) {NWP}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Mantle only	Undetermined		None		Okutani et al. (1976:85)	Ohsumi & Satake (1976)	From 9.5 m long female sperm whale (no. 79).
224	March 1976	Wellington south coast, New Zealand {SWP}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis sp.	Entire				NMNZ; photographs only	Förch (1998:106)
225	August 1976	off Vancouver, Oregon, United States {NEP}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.	Entire?	Undetermined		ML: ~2 m		Nesis et al. (1985:523)
226	September 1976	off South Africa (27°42′S 14°13′E) {SEA}	By trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undetermined		WL: 4.5 m; WT: 200 kg; TL: ~6 m; ML: 195 cm; radula		Pérez-Gándaras & Guerra (1978:401, figs. 1–4)	Nesis et al. (1985:518)	Stomach contents analysed.
227	19 November 1977	Firth of Forth, North Berwick, Scotland (56°03.5′N 02°43′W) {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis dux	Entire	Entire; dissected, parts preserved separately	Female	ML: 161 cm; HL: 43 cm; AL: 230 cm; TL: 440 cm; FL: 67 cm; FW: 55 cm	NMSZ; catalog no. 1978090.1	Heppell (1977:63); Heppell (1978:89); Heppell & Smith (1983:34)	Collins (1998:489)
228	21 November 1977	Lance Cove, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	None		Unknown size	None; Aldrich specimen No. 12	Aldrich (1991:472)		Report only; specimen not observed.
229	April 1978	Jiaonon, Shandong Province, China {NWP}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.	Beaks	Undetermined		None		Dong (1984:328, fig. 2.1)		From stranded sperm whale.
230	9 June 1978	Miura Peninsula, Japan {NWP}	Not stated	Architeuthis cf. japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Entire	Entire, missing fins, tentacles, and arm tips	Female	ML: 540 mm; AL(IV): 830 mm [longest arm IV, missing tip]	Keikyu Aburatsubo Marine Park	Kubodera & Yamada (2001:238, pl. 2A)		Specimen donated to aquarium by Kurihama Thermoelectric Power Plant. Tentatively assigned to A. japonica based on relative lengths of mantle and longest arm IV.
231	~15 June 1978	near Mack Arch, Oregon, North Pacific Ocean {NEP}	By trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Sucker rings		WT: 225 lb (102 kg)	SBMNH; catalog no. 60119	[Anonymous] (1978a); [Anonymous] (1978b)		Caught by commercial fisherman G. Steffensmier.
232	21 June 1978	off Fort Lauderdale, United States (Straits of Florida) (26°10′N 80°00′W; given as "26°10'N 80°W") {NWA}	From fish stomach, Xiphias gladius (swordfish)	Architeuthis sp.	Entire, "mutilated specimen"	Entire	Male (mature)	ML: 167+ mm; GL: 179 mm; additional extensive description	RSMAS; catalog no. UMML 31.1761 [specimen No. 9 of Roper et al. (2015)]	Toll & Hess (1981b:754, fig. 1); Roper et al. (2015:80)	Toll & Hess (1981a:768); Hess & Toll (1981:162, fig. 4); Roper (1992:99); Roeleveld (2002:736); Roper & Shea (2013:116)	From stomach of female swordfish (205 cm fork length). Very small mature specimen with spermatophores (subadult according to Roper & Shea, 2013). Toll & Hess (1981b) suggested it might be an undescribed dwarf species and Roeleveld (2002:736) wrote of this specimen: "It probably represents a distinct species and perhaps even a separate genus."
233	July 1978	Gisborne, New Zealand {SWP}	Trawl capture	Architeuthis sp.	Entire					Förch (1998:106)	The Gisborne Herald (photographs)
234	late 1978	Cheynes Beach, Albany, Western Australia {SWP}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.	Two specimens	Undetermined		WT: 280 kg [larger specimen]	Wallaroo Heritage and Nautical Museum, South Australia (smaller specimen)	[Anonymous] (1980:27); Zeidler (1996:7)	Zeidler & Gowlett-Holmes (1996:85); Sea Frontiers	Caught by Cheynes Beach Whaling Co., Albany, Western Australia. Larger specimen used in promotional displays.
235	Unknown (reported 1979)	Noto, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan {NWP}	In floating blanket net	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undetermined		TL: 5.5 m; WT: 97 kg		Satomi (1979)	Kitaguni Newspaper (photograph) [fide Sweeney & Roper (2001:[75]); "T. Kubodera (pers. comm.)"]
236	1979	Newfoundland {NWA}	By trawl					EL: 31 ft (9.4 m)		Ellis (1998a:263) ["Stephen, pers. comm. (1997)"]		Captured by Spanish trawler.
237	20 August 1979	Cortez Bank, California, United States, at 550 fathoms (1,010 m) depth {NEP}	Sablefish trap	Architeuthis japonica?	Tentacle only; recovered from trap	Tentacle			SBMNH; catalog no. 60117	Hochberg (in prep.) [fide Sweeney & Roper (2001:[81])]
238	19 November 1979	Saint Brendan's, Cottel's Island, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire, in several pieces	None; discarded	Female	ML: 154 cm; additional measurements	None; Aldrich specimen No. 13	Aldrich (1991:473)
239	Unknown (reported 1980)	Oregon, United States {NEP}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Entire?	Undetermined		None		Hochberg & Fields (1980:434)	Nesis et al. (1985:523)
240 (📷)	early February 1980	Plum Island, Massachusetts, United States; see map {NWA}	Found stranded on beach	Architeuthis sp.	Entire, missing eyes, long feeding tentacles, most arm tips, and skin; lost when the squid washed ashore	Entire	Female	WL: 2.7 m; ML: ~2 m; EL: ~9/~10 m [estimate]; WT: 200 kg	NMNH; catalog no. 814000 [specimen No. 10 of Roper et al. (2015)]	Roper & Boss (1982:96); Clark (1983); Conley-Early (1995:48); Feldman (1996); Whalen (2009); Roper et al. (2015:80)	Wu (2018)	On public display. Originally displayed at the New England Aquarium. Given as gift to NMNH in 1982. Featured in the Smithsonian Institution's monthly newspaper, The Torch, in February 1983 (Clark, 1983). From 2009, displayed in the Cold Water Quest Gallery of Georgia Aquarium on loan from NMNH.
241	March–April 1980	about 250 miles (400 km) off California (34°39'–35°39'N 126°25'–127°28'W), North Pacific Ocean, at 25–40 to 90 m depth {NEP}	By trawl	Architeuthis sp.	18 entire specimens	Undetermined		ML: 50–77 cm (ML: 62.5 cm [average]); additional measurements, indices, and descriptions		Nesis et al. (1985:519, figs. 1–3)		Eighteen specimens taken in 9 trawls.
*	No date given	North Pacific (35°20′N 126°43′W) {NEP}		Architeuthis		Tentacles only		ML: ~500 mm [estimate]; TL: 1030/1570 mm; CL: 311/357 mm; CSC: 247/246; TSC: >273/>274; additional indices and counts	P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology [specimen NP-33 of Roeleveld (2002)]	Nesis et al. (1985:519); Roeleveld (2002:727)		One of the 18 specimens from record #226. Tentacle morphology examined by Roeleveld (2002).
242	2 July 1980	1,500 miles (2,400 km) off Oregon, Northeast Pacific (42°35′N 148°35′W) at 15 m depth {NEP}	By pelagic trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Entire, minus arms and tentacles		ML: 164 cm [fresh]; FL: 75 cm [fresh]; FW: 43 cm [fresh]; description of thawed plus preserved specimen	ZMMGU	Nesis et al. (1985:518)		Taken by R/V Novoul'yanovsk with 133 m pelagic trawl.
243	1980	off New South Wales coast, Eastern Australia {SWP}	From smooth hammerhead stomach, Sphyrna zygaena	Architeuthis sp.	Beak	Undetermined		ML: 706 mm [estimate]		Dunning et al. (1993:124)
244	1980	Vertical de Cudillero, Asturias, Spain {NEA}	Not specified	Architeuthis dux	At least a tentacle			WT: 100 kg [tentacle only?]		Guerra et al. (2006:258)		Attempt made to haul aboard a tentacle weighing 100 kg [?], but material was discarded upon observation of its poor state. Seen from the ship Oñaegea.
245	20 August 1980	South African waters {SEA}	By trawl; taken by fisheries vessel	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	None		ML: 0.81 m		Pérez-Gándaras & Guerra (1989:114)
246	21 October 1980	Patton Escarpment, California, United States (32°28′30″N 120°15′48″W) at 500–600 m depth {NEP}	By RMT-8 midwater trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Tentacle club and stalk	Tentacle club and stalk		CL: 41.5 cm	SBMNH; catalog no. 60120	Robison (1989:39, figs. 1–2)
247	February 1981	Kāne'ohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands {NEP}	By hook and line	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Beak plus piece of flesh		?WL: 20 ft (6.1 m)	Undetermined	Higa (1981:9)		Taken alive while trolling by M. Yoshida and D. Maeda; attacked by false killer whale during retrieval.
248	10 February 1981	~10 mi (16 km) offshore from Kahana Bay, Oahu, Hawaii {NEP}	Caught by fisherman	"likely to be of the genus Architeuthis"	At least head and arms; skin and eye(s) intact		(adult)	EyD: at least 270 mm [estimate]; pupil diameter: 90 mm [estimate]		Nilsson et al. (2012:683)		Caught by fisherman Henry Olsen. Photograph of freshly caught specimen taken by Ernie Choy at pier shows head with undamaged eye; used by Nilsson et al. (2012) to estimate eye and pupil diameter on basis of standard fuel hose visible in frame (findings of paper summarised by Partridge, 2012; challenged by Schmitz, 2013; Schmitz et al., 2013a; Schmitz et al., 2013b; defended by Nilsson et al., 2013).
249	20 May 1981	Vavilov Ridge, Southeast Atlantic (7°56′S 0°57′E) at 400–470 m depth {SEA}	By 110 m cable-trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Tentacles plus part of viscera; remainder lost		TL: 420 + 400 cm [fresh]; TL: 287 + 269 cm [fixed]; additional counts, measurements, and description	Undetermined	Nesis et al. (1985:522)		Taken by R/V Novoukrainka.
250	1981	Asturias, Spain {NEA}	Not specified	Architeuthis dux	Entire?			?EL: 10 m		Guerra et al. (2006:258)		Displayed in a Gijón fish shop before being sold at a market in Avilés.
251	3 August 1981	Orange River mouth, Southeast Atlantic (27°45′S 10°45′E) at 18–95 m depth {SEA}	By trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Entire		ML: 81 cm; TL: 364 cm; WT: 11.8 kg	Undetermined	Nesis et al. (1985:522)		Taken by R/V Novoukrainka.
252	7 September 1981	Azores Islands {NEA}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.	Lower beak	Undetermined		LRL: 14.1 mm		Clarke (1986:fig. 22b)
253	11 October 1981	Tasman Sea (33°19.4′S 155°00.3′E) at 20 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Entire	Larva	ML: 10.3 mm	NMV	Lu (1986:9, fig.); Roper (1992:99, fig. 161)	Zeidler & Gowlett-Holmes (1996:85); Roper & Shea (2013:116)	Captured by FRV Soela at 1450 hours.
254 (📷)	10 November 1981	Hare Bay, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire, in remarkably good condition; skin, tentacles and eye(s) intact	Entire	Female	ML: 159 cm; EL: 32 or 42 ft (9.8 or 12.8 m) [when found]; EL: 29 ft (8.8 m) [as of 2009]; WT: 250–300 lb (110–140 kg); additional measurements	The Rooms; catalog no. MO-1692. Aldrich specimen No. 14	Aldrich (1991:473); Bourque (2009); [Anonymous] (c. 2014)		On public display. Found in 30 cm of water adjacent to the property of David Lush, who found it while walking with his young daughter Kelly. Lush and Ray Collins brought it to the attention of Frederick Aldrich. Viewed on beach by staff and students of Jane Collins Academy, one of whom photographed specimen in situ (see [Anonymous], c. 2014). Transported to the Memorial University of Newfoundland and dissected there on 12 November. Donated by Aldrich to the Natural History Branch of the old Newfoundland Museum in 1987. Originally preserved in 300-litre tank. On 18 November 2007, following minor repairs (arms sewn up and loose skin removed), specimen was transferred to an 800-gallon (3,600 L) tank filled with propylene glycol at The Rooms, where it could be exhibited with tentacles fully extended.
255	Christmas 1981	Playa de Luarca, Asturias, Spain {NEA}	Found washed ashore on beach	Architeuthis dux	Entire?; poor condition					Guerra et al. (2006:258)		Found by Secundino González and Manuel Pico.
256	1981–1984	Azores {NEA}	From sperm whale stomachs	Architeuthis ?dux Steenstrup, 1860	Beaks	Undetermined		WT: 23 kg [estimated average]; ML: 1 m [estimated average]		Clarke et al. (1993:71)		Found in stomach contents of 76.5% of 17 sperm whales sampled during 1981–1984.
257	30 January 1982	off New South Wales, Australia (33°44′S 153°00′E) from surface to 600 m depth {SWP}	By oblique pelagic trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undetermined	Female (juvenile)	ML: 42.2 cm		Jackson et al. (1991:331)	Zeidler & Gowlett-Holmes (1996:85); Roper & Shea (2013:116)
258	July 1982	North Canterbury, New Zealand {SWP}	Trawl capture	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Partial club			NMNZ; NMNZ M77446	Förch (1998:106)
259	23 August 1982	off shore, Radøy (near Bergen), Norway {NEA}	By hook and line, caught alive	Architeuthis monachus (Steenstrup in Harting, 1860)	Entire	Undetermined		EL: ~10 m; TL: ~7.3 m; WT: ~220 kg	ZMUB?	Brix (1983:422, fig. 1)	Brix et al. (1989:34); Hoving et al. (2006:158)	Caught in 5 m deep bay; dying at time of capture. Blood study by Brix et al. (1989).
260 (📷)	September 1982	Fladen Ground, northern North Sea, c. 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Aberdeen, Scotland (c. 59°N 0.5°E / 59; 0.5 (Giant squid specimen)), depth unknown but 100–150 m in area [north of Dogger Bank, North Sea (55°30′N 3°00′E; given as "55°30'N 3°E") fide [Naturalis] (2015b), [Naturalis] (2016)] {NEA}	By trawl	Architeuthis spec.; Architeuthis dux	Entire; most of viscera missing, posterior tail and fins cut off, small piece of testis present, fragments of reddish membrane (which normally covers viscera) present, spermatangia deeply implanted in left arm IV (180–350 mm from base)	Entire	Male (mature?)	ML: 900 mm; MT: 22 mm [maximum]; WT: ≥18 kg [much lower than fresh mass]; AL(I): 700+/750+ mm; AL(II): 610+/870+ mm; AL(III): 980+/790+ mm; AL(IV): 830+/940+ mm; TL: 810+/1040+ mm; EyD: 80 mm; GiL: 250 mm; FuD: 55 mm; FuCL: 115 mm; ASD: 15 mm [largest]; [measurements taken after almost 25 years of preservation in formalin]	Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands; catalog no. RMNH.MOL.92511 & 111016	Hoving et al. (2006:153); [Naturalis] (c. 2012); [Naturalis] (2015b); [Naturalis] (2016)		On public display. Caught by beam trawler Urk 56, operating from IJmuiden harbour; purchased from F. Sievertsen. First giant squid caught by Dutch fishermen. Probably mature, having spermatangia (inverted spermatophores) implanted in ventral arm. Exhibited at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden in formalin or 70% alcohol (see [Naturalis], 2015b, 2016).
261	30 October 1982	Sandy Cove, Fogo Island, Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire, in poor condition	Entire?	Female	ML: 169 cm; additional measurements	NMSJ; catalog no. MO-1693. Aldrich specimen No. 15	Aldrich (1991:474, fig. 10)		"Had engaged in battle with what apparently was another cephalopod".
262	30 December 1982	Kuzuareyama coast of Noh-machi, Niigata Prefecture, Japan {NWP}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Entire	Undetermined		?WL: 3.98 m; WT: 120 kg		Honma et al. (1983:23, fig. 1)
263	1983	Las Tiberas, Asturias, Spain {NEA}	Not specified	Architeuthis dux				WT: 150 kg [dead]		Guerra et al. (2006:258)		Collected by "El Dioni" of Avilés.
264	19 August 1983	west coast of North Island, New Zealand (39°03′S 174°04′E) {SWP}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	None	Female (immature)	ML: 2035 mm; HL: ~0.5 m; WT: >200 kg; ASD: 23 mm	NMNZ; NMNZ M79971. Gauldie et al. specimen No. 1	Gauldie et al. (1994:94); Förch (1983:6, fig.); Förch (1998:specimen 1)	Judd (1996)	Found stuck in filtering screens of cooling water intake of New Plymouth power station. Specimen "appeared to be a different species" from next New Zealand carcass (#266), per Judd (1996).
265	8–9 January 1984	Cove Bay (near Aberdeen), Scotland {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis cf. dux	Entire	Undetermined	Female	WL: ~4.23 m; ML: ~1.75 m; GL: 1.57 m; BC: 1.40 m; HC: 0.88 m; WT: ~168 kg; ED: <1.0-<0.5 mm		Nixon (1984:4); Boyle (1986:81)	Boyle (1984:12); Collins (1998:489)	Tested for buoyancy. Egg count estimated at >10×106.
266	8 March 1984	Auckland Islands (51°16′S 166°52′E) at 533 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Undetermined	Female	ML: 1930 mm; no other measurements	None?; Gauldie et al. specimen No. 2	Gauldie et al. (1994:94); Förch (1998:specimen 2)	Judd (1996); O'Shea (2007)	Caught by F/V Shinkai Maru. Specimen "appeared to be a different species" from previous New Zealand carcass (#264), per Judd (1996).
267	12 April 1984	southeast coast of North Island, New Zealand (41°11′S 176°44′E) at 870–1100 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Undetermined	Female	ML: 930 mm; no other measurements	None?; Gauldie et al. specimen No. 3	Gauldie et al. (1994:94); Förch (1998:specimen 5)	O'Shea (2007)
268	April 1984	3 miles (4.8 km) from Tazones, Asturias, Spain {NEA}	By trawl	Architeuthis dux	Entire?			WL: 3–4 m		Guerra et al. (2006:258)		Captured by Antonio Coro.
269	3 May 1984	near Castlepoint lighthouse, west coast of North Island, New Zealand (40°54′S 176°14′E) {SWP}	Found floating	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Undetermined	Female	ML: 1770 mm; no other measurements	None?; Gauldie et al. specimen No. 4	Gauldie et al. (1994:94); Förch (1998:specimen 3)	Judd (1996)	Specimen "brought to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in Wellington on the back of a ute by a rock lobster fisherman", who initially thought it was "a large floating plastic bag" but noticed it was being attacked by gulls. Many features said to be intermediate between those of #264 and 266 (Judd, 1996).
270	9 May 1984	Cape Palliser, Wellington, New Zealand {SWP}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis sp.	Entire?	Undetermined		None		Stevens (1988:150)
271	12 May 1984	south coast of North Island, New Zealand (41°17′S 174°47′E) {SWP}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Undetermined	Female	ML: 1825 mm; no other measurements	None?; Gauldie et al. specimen No. 5	Gauldie et al. (1994:94); Förch (1998:specimen 4)	Stevens (1988:150, fig. 3)
272	May 1984	Namibia, South African waters {SEA}	By trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undetermined		ML: 1250 mm[?]; WT: 38 kg; MW: 390 mm; HW: 250 mm; FL: 570 mm; FW: 280 mm[?]; TL: 4750 mm		Pérez-Gándaras & Guerra (1989:115)		Taken by fisheries vessel.
	June 1984	Chub Cay, Bahamas (25°24.25′N 77°55′W) {NWA}	Found dying at surface; not collected	Architeuthis dux	Entire; tentacles missing	None		WL: 400 cm; WT: 114 lb (52 kg)	None [specimen No. 11 of Roper et al. (2015)]	Roper et al. (2015:80)		Identified based on photo.
273	June 1984	west coast hoki grounds, South Island, New Zealand {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire					Förch (1998:106)		Caught by F/V Arrow.
274	1984	Cal. Sierra d Oviedo, Asturias, Spain {NEA}	From shark stomach	Architeuthis dux	Severed tentacle			TC: >10 cm		Guerra et al. (2006:258)
275	25 July 1984	northwest coast of South Island, New Zealand (41°05′S 170°52′E) at 475 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Entire	Female	ML: 1560 mm; TL: 7500 mm [right]; CSC: 250 [right]; additional indices and counts	NMNZ; NMNZ M.86826; Gauldie et al. specimen No. 6 [specimen NZ-6 of Roeleveld (2002)]	Gauldie et al. (1994:94); Förch (1998:specimen 6); Roeleveld (2002:727)	O'Shea (2007)	Tentacle morphology examined by Roeleveld (2002).
276	24 September 1984	southwest coast of South Island, New Zealand (46°18′S 166°30′E) at 365 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Entire	Female	ML: 2020 mm; TL: 6325/7250 mm; CL: 925/925 mm; CSC: 287/287; TSC: 310/310; additional indices and counts	NMNZ; NMNZ M.79976; Gauldie et al. specimen No. 7 [specimen NZ-7 of Roeleveld (2002)]	Gauldie et al. (1994:94); Förch (1998:specimen 7); Roeleveld (2002:727)	O'Shea (2007)	Caught by F/V Tengawai. Tentacle morphology examined by Roeleveld (2002).
277	Unknown (sampled during 1984–1990)	San Miguel Island, California, United States {NEP}	From northern elephant seal stomach, Mirounga angustirostris	Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Beaks	Undetermined		None		Antonelis et al. (1994:214)		From three northern elephant seals, sampled during 1984–1990.
278	6 June 1985	New Zealand (47°04′S 169°32′E) at 310 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire		Female	ML: ~2000 mm		Förch (1998:106)	O'Shea (2007)	Caught by F/V Daishin Maru 23.
279	23 July 1985	off New Zealand; see map {SWP}	Sighting	Architeuthis sp.	Larva(e)			Larva(e)		O'Shea (N.d.)
280	31 July 1985	off New Zealand; see map {SWP}	Sighting	Architeuthis sp.	Larva(e)			Larva(e)		O'Shea (N.d.)
281	26 August 1985	off New Zealand; see map {SWP}	Sighting	Architeuthis sp.	Larva(e)			Larva(e)		O'Shea (N.d.)
282	28 August 1985	off New Zealand; see map {SWP}	Sighting	Architeuthis sp.	Larva(e)			Larva(e)		O'Shea (N.d.)
283	29 August 1985	off New Zealand; see map {SWP}	Sighting	Architeuthis sp.	Larva(e)			Larva(e)		O'Shea (N.d.)
284	1 September 1985	off New Zealand; see map {SWP}	Sighting	Architeuthis sp.	Larva(e)			Larva(e)		O'Shea (N.d.)
285	Unknown (reported 1986)	Unknown {?}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.	Buccal mass and beak	Beak		LRL: 18.8 mm	Undetermined	Clarke (1986:fig. 22a)		From sperm whale stomach (G17A65).
286	Unknown (reported 1986)	South Africa {SEA}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.	Lower beak	Beak		LRL: 17.2 mm	Undetermined	Clarke (1986:fig. 23)
287	Unknown (reported 1986)	Azores Islands {NEA}	Not stated	Architeuthis sp.	Lower beak	Lower beak		ML: 1980 mm; LRL: 19.4 mm	Undetermined	Clarke (1986:fig. 24a)
288	29 January 1986	off Aberdeen, Scotland {NEA}	By trawl	Architeuthis cf. dux	Entire	None; sold commercially		WL: 2.98 m; ML: 1.45 m; BC: 1.10 m; AC: 0.22 m; WT: ~90 kg		Boyle (1986:82)	Collins (1998:489)	Caught by fishing vessel; measurements by Mr. G. Howard.
289	March 1986	near mouth of Orange River, South Africa (27°52′S 14°40′E) at 510–550 m depth {SEA}	By bottom trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Entire	Female (maturing)	ML: 1680 mm; LRL: 17.4 mm; URL: 17.1 mm; extensive measurements, illustrations, and description	SAM; catalog no. S1681 [specimen SA-3 of Roeleveld (2000)]	Roeleveld & Lipiński (1991:433, pls.); Roeleveld (2000:185)		Taken by MT Pardelhas. Beak morphometrics studied by Roeleveld (2000).
290	31 March 1986	Auckland Islands (50°50′S 166°51′E) at 296 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Undetermined	Female	ML: 1720 mm; no other measurements	None?; Gauldie et al. specimen No. 8	Gauldie et al. (1994:94); Förch (1998:specimen 11)	O'Shea (2007)	Caught by F/V Akebono Maru 73.
291	11 April 1986	northeast coast of North Island, New Zealand (35°43′S 174°20′E) {SWP}	Found floating	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Undetermined	Male	ML: 1260 mm; no other measurements	None?; Gauldie et al. specimen No. 9	Gauldie et al. (1994:94); Förch (1998:specimen 9)
292	17 April 1986	east coast of South Island, New Zealand (43°38′S 174°43′E) at 470 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Entire	Female	ML: 1815 mm; TL: 3150/3110 mm; CSC: 257/248; TSC: 279 [right]; additional indices and counts	NMNZ; Gauldie et al. specimen No. 10 [specimen NZ-12 of Roeleveld (2002)]	Gauldie et al. (1994:94); Förch (1998:specimen 12); Roeleveld (2002:727)	O'Shea (2007)	Caught by F/V Banshu Maru 8. Tentacle morphology examined by Roeleveld (2002).
293	27 May 1986	southwest coast of South Island, New Zealand (46°32′S 166°11′E) at 604 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Entire	Female	ML: 1830 mm; CL: 840 mm; additional indices and counts	NMNZ; Gauldie et al. specimen No. 11 [specimen NZ-13 of Roeleveld (2002)]	Gauldie et al. (1994:94); Förch (1998:specimen 13); Roeleveld (2002:727)	O'Shea (2007)	Caught by F/V Daishin Maru 28. O'Shea (2007) gives date as 27 April. Tentacle morphology examined by Roeleveld (2002).
	third week of July 1986	Newfoundland {NWA}	Not stated	Architeuthis?	Entire?; "rotting"			None		Aldrich (1991:460)		Reported by T. Matthews of the Department of the Environment at Bristol's Hope, Conception Bay. "No information on the specimen has been obtained, save that it was in "rotting" condition" (Aldrich, 1991:460).
294	18 July 1986	west coast of South Island, New Zealand (42°03′S 170°26′E) at 450/500 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Undetermined		ML: 1380 mm; WT: 43.5 kg; see Förch (1998:110)	None?; Gauldie et al. specimen No. 12	Gauldie et al. (1994:94); Förch (1998:107)	O'Shea (2007)	Caught by F/V Dolomit.
295	19 July 1986	east coast of Tasmania, Australia {SWP}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis						[Anonymous] (2007a)	Trivedi (2002)
296	8 September 1986	east coast of South Island, New Zealand (43°43′S 174°56′E) at 480 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Undetermined	Female	ML: 2140 mm; no other measurements	None?; Gauldie et al. specimen No. 13	Gauldie et al. (1994:94); Förch 1998:specimen 14)	O'Shea (2007)	Caught by F/V Banshu Maru 8.
297	26 February 1987	east coast of South Island, New Zealand (44°09′S 173°44′E) at 350 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Entire	Male [female? fide Roeleveld (2002:727)]	ML: 1900 mm; CL: 755 mm; CSC: 222; additional indices and counts	NMNZ; Gauldie et al. specimen No. 14 [specimen NZ-8 of Roeleveld (2002)]	Gauldie et al. (1994:94); Förch (1998:specimen 8); Roeleveld (2002:727)	O'Shea (2007)	Caught by F/V Daishin Maru 22. Roeleveld (2002) and O'Shea (2007) give coordinates of 44°09′S 173°35′E and O'Shea (2007) gives depth of 312–356 m. Tentacle morphology examined by Roeleveld (2002).
298	5 March 1987	off Shetland Islands {NEA}	By trawl	Architeuthis sp.		Undetermined		ML: 1100 mm		Collins (1998:489)
299	April–July 1987	approximately 40°S 120°W, South Pacific {SEP}	By trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Eight juveniles	Undetermined	(juveniles)	None		Alexeyev (1994:156, map)		Taken in subantarctic waters by R/V Vozrozhdeniye, cruise XI.
300	3 May 1987	southeast coast of North Island, New Zealand (41°31′S 176°43′E) at 360 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Undetermined	Female	ML: 1610 mm; no other measurements	None?; Gauldie et al. specimen No. 15	Gauldie et al. (1994:94)	Förch (1998:107); O'Shea (2007)	Listed in table as 3 April. Used for statolith study.
301	9 May 1987	east coast of South Island, New Zealand (43°38′S 174°14′E) at 506 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Undetermined	Female	ML: 2135 mm; no other measurements	None?; Gauldie et al. specimen No. 16	Gauldie et al. (1994:94); Förch (1998:specimen 15)	O'Shea (2007)	Caught by F/V Daishin Maru 28.
302	1987	near Sydney, Australia {SWP}	By trawl?	Architeuthis sp.	Entire?	Undetermined		WT: 150 kg		Gannon (1996)		"150 kg monster landed near Sydney in 1987"
303	19 July 1987	off New Zealand; see map {SWP}	Sighting	Architeuthis sp.	Larva(e)			Larva(e)		O'Shea (N.d.)
304	20 July 1987	off New Zealand; see map {SWP}	Sighting	Architeuthis sp.	Larva(e)			Larva(e)		O'Shea (N.d.)
305	26 July 1987	west coast of South Island, New Zealand (42°35′S 170°23′E) at 503 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Undetermined		ML: 1300 mm; see Förch (1998:110)	None?; Gauldie et al. specimen No. 17	Gauldie et al. (1994:94); Förch (1998:107)	O'Shea (2007)	Caught by F/V Zuiyo 3.
306	26 July 1987	off New Zealand; see map {SWP}	Sighting	Architeuthis sp.	Larva(e)			Larva(e)		O'Shea (N.d.)
307	28 July 1987	off New Zealand; see map {SWP}	Sighting	Architeuthis sp.	Larva(e)			Larva(e)		O'Shea (N.d.)
308	16 August 1987	west coast of South Island, New Zealand (41°21′S 170°30′E) at 464 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Undetermined		ML: 1370 mm; WT: 70 kg; no other measurements	None?; Gauldie et al. specimen No. 18	Gauldie et al. (1994:94)	Förch (1998:108); O'Shea (2007)	Caught by F/V Zuiyo 3.
309	25 August 1987	west coast of South Island, New Zealand (41°31′S 170°34′E) at 410–608 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Undetermined	Female	ML: 1230 mm; see Förch (1998:110)	None?; Gauldie et al. specimen No. 19	Gauldie et al. (1994:94); Förch (1998:108)	O'Shea (2007)
310	2 September 1987	east of Auckland Islands (51°18′S 170°23′E) {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Undetermined		ML: 1780 mm; see Förch (1998:110)	None?; Gauldie et al. specimen No. 20	Gauldie et al. (1994:94); Förch (1998:108)	O'Shea (2007)	Caught by F/V Mys Kronotsky.
311	13 October 1987	south coast of South Island, New Zealand (46°24′S 166°23′E) at 487 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Undetermined		ML: 1770 mm; see Förch (1998:110)	None?; Gauldie et al. specimen No. 21	Gauldie et al. (1994:94); Förch (1998:108)	O'Shea (2007)	Caught by F/V Chiyo Maru 2.
312	October 1987	South African waters (29°46′S 14°43′E) {SEA}	By trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undetermined		ML: 1790 mm[?]; WT: 130 kg; MW: 485 mm; HW: 240 mm; FL: 720 mm; FW: 360 mm		Pérez-Gándaras & Guerra (1989:115)		Taken by fisheries vessel.
313	4 November 1987	south coast of South Island, New Zealand (47°32′S 169°10′E) {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Undetermined		ML: 2010 mm; see Förch (1998:110)	None?; Gauldie et al. specimen No. 22	Gauldie et al. (1994:94); Förch (1998:108)	O'Shea (2007)	Caught by F/V Chiyo Maru.
314	5 November 1987	southwest coast of South Island, New Zealand (46°31′S 166°30′E) at 550 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Undetermined		ML: 1770 mm; no other measurements	None?; Gauldie et al. specimen No. 23	Gauldie et al. (1994:94)	Förch (1998:108); O'Shea (2007)	Caught by F/V Chiyo Maru 2.
315	26 November 1987	off New Zealand (47°29′S 169°35′E) at 540 m depth {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
316	5 December 1987	New Zealand (47°28′S 169°35′E) at 540 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire			WT: ~80 kg		Förch (1998:108)	O'Shea (2007)	Caught by F/V Chiyo Maru 2.
317	6 December 1987	New Zealand (47°30′S 169°19′E) at 550 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire			WT: ~20 kg		Förch (1998:108)	O'Shea (2007)	Caught by F/V Chiyo Maru 2.
318	late 1987	hoki grounds, South Island, New Zealand {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undetermined	Female	ML: 1830 mm; no other measurements	None?; Förch specimen No. 10	Förch (1998:107)
319	25 January 1988	Auckland Islands (51°00′S 166°42′E) at 495 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Undetermined		ML: 1880 mm; WT: ~150 kg; see Förch (1998:110)	None?; Gauldie et al. specimen No. 24	Gauldie et al. (1994:94); Förch (1998:108)	O'Shea (2007)	Caught by F/V Nikolaevskiy Korabel. O'Shea (2007) gives date as 25 December.
320 (📷)	16 April 1988	Uradome coast, Shirohara, Iwami-cho, Tottori Prefecture, Japan {NWP}	Found stranded in shallow water, alive	Architeuthis dux	Entire, good condition; red skin and tentacles intact, most arm tips missing	Entire	Probably female (maturity unknown)	EL: 6959 mm; DML: 1309 mm; MW: 383 mm; Mantle perimeter: 878 mm; FL: 540 mm; FW: 325 mm; HL: 350 mm; HW: 193 mm; TL: 5218/5300 mm; TCL: 703/773 mm; TSD: 20 mm [maximum]; AL(I): 1211/1492 mm; AL(II): 1781/1096 mm; AL(III): 1549/1458 mm; AL(IV): 1343/1507 mm; WT: ~80 kg; extensive additional measurements and counts	Tottori Prefectural Museum; TRPM-A-595-0201-01	Nomura (1988:26); Tamura (1995:481); [Anonymous] (2006); Wada et al. (2014:67, figs. 1–4); Shimada et al. (2017:9)		On public display. Specimen photographed in shallow water by Yasuke Yamane. Exhibited at Tottori Prefectural Museum since 21 June 1988, preserved in formalin; oldest specimen on public display in Japan (Shimada et al., 2017:9). Formed part of ground floor exhibit at Misawa Airport between 15 and 30 July 2006 ([Anonymous], 2006). Removed from old tank and examined in detail on 19 March 2013 (see Wada et al., 2014).
321	28 July 1988	off New Zealand; see map {SWP}	Sighting	Architeuthis sp.	Larva(e)			Larva(e)		O'Shea (N.d.)
322	29 July 1988	off New Zealand; see map {SWP}	Sighting	Architeuthis sp.	Larva(e)			Larva(e)		O'Shea (N.d.)
323	31 July 1988	off New Zealand; see map {SWP}	Sighting	Architeuthis sp.	Larva(e)			Larva(e)		O'Shea (N.d.)
324	12 March 1989	Namibia (26°07′S 13°41′E) {SEA}	By trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Only tentacle clubs, hectocotylus, genitalia, beaks, and statolith	Male (mature)	ML: 1220 mm [fresh]; FL: 540 mm [thawed]; FW: 460 mm [thawed]; MW: 460 mm [thawed]; TL: 5060 + 4510 mm [thawed]; WT: 41,350 g [thawed]; other measurements	ICM?	Villanueva & Sánchez (1993:33)
	August 1989	South Shore, Bermuda (~32°12′N 64°53′W) {NWA}	Found floating at surface	Architeuthis dux	Entire?, "relatively good condition"			ML: 95 cm	[specimen No. 12 of Roper et al. (2015)]	Roper et al. (2015:80)
325	September 1989	Santa Catarina State, Brazil (27°24′S 45°37′W) {SWA}	Found floating at surface	Architeuthis sp.			Female	ML: 151 cm	Instituto de Pesca, Santos, Brazil	Arfelli et al. (1991:83, figs. 2–3)	Ré et al. (1998:109)
326	7 February 1990	Poipu, Kauai, Hawaiian Islands {NEP}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis sp.	Lower beaks	Undetermined				Clarke & Young (1998:625)		From stranded 7250 kg male sperm whale.
327	10 February 1990	Long Rock, Penzance, Cornwall, England {NEA}	From stomach of stranded sperm whale	Architeuthis spp.	47 beaks	Beaks?			Undetermined	Clarke & Pascoe (1997:1256)	Roper & Shea (2013:112)	From 46 ft (14 m) male sperm whale. Giant squid accounted for 43% by number and estimated 80% by weight of total stomach contents. Possibly largest number of giant squid beaks found in a single whale stomach; see Roper & Shea (2013:112).
328	19 July 1990	West Cove, San Miguel Island, California, United States {NEP}	From northern elephant seal stomach, Mirounga angustirostris	Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Beaks	One lower beak		None	NMML; catalog no. 486	Fiscus (1993:94)		From male northern elephant seal (specimen no. Y1991/1992).
329	14 March 1991	Soetwater, Kommetjie (Cape Peninsula), South Africa {SEA}	Undetermined	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Entire	Female (mature)	ML: 1850 mm; statolith; LRL: 16.2 mm [estimate]; URL: 16.5 mm; additional beak measurements	SAM; catalog no. S2486 [specimen SA-4 of Roeleveld (2000)]	Lipiński (1997:299); Roeleveld (2000:185)	The Natal Mercury, 1996; Roeleveld (1998:8)	Beak morphometrics studied by Roeleveld (2000).
330	15 June 1991	South Africa (34°47′S 18°14′E) {SEA}	Undetermined	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Entire	Female (maturing)	ML: 1400 mm; statolith; LRL: 18.1 mm; URL: 17.6 mm; additional beak measurements	SAM; catalog no. S2546 [specimen SA-5 of Roeleveld (2000)]	Roeleveld (1996); Lipiński (1997:299); Roeleveld (2000:185)		Beak morphometrics studied by Roeleveld (2000).
331	20 July 1991	east coast of Tasmania, Australia {SWP}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis						[Anonymous] (2007a)	Trivedi (2002)
332	?, 1992	Playa de Xagó, Asturias, Spain {NEA}	Not specified; found floating at surface?	Architeuthis dux	Mantle and head at least					Guerra et al. (2006:258)		Rest of mantle and head wrapped in a cloth of "volanta". Found by Guardia Civil.
333	1992	El Musel, Asturias, Spain {NEA}	Not specified	Architeuthis dux	Entire?			?EL: 5 m		Guerra et al. (2006:258)
	April 1992	playa de Los Positos, Mazo, La Palma, Canary Islands {NEA}	Found on beach	Architeuthis?	"remains"	"small samples"		"large specimen"		González & Heylen (2002:71)		Samples taken by biologists and analysed without reaching definitive conclusion.
334	7 May 1992	Kommetjie (Cape Peninsula), South Africa {SEA}	Undetermined	Architeuthis sp.	Head only	Head	Female	ML: 1600 mm [estimate]; statolith; LRL: 17.1 mm; URL: 17.3 mm; additional beak measurements	SAM; catalog no. S2556 [specimen SA-6 of Roeleveld (2000)]	Roeleveld (1996); Lipiński (1997:299); Roeleveld (2000:185)		Beak morphometrics studied by Roeleveld (2000).
335	10 June 1992	west of Cape Columbine (32°53'S), South Africa {SEA}	Undetermined	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Entire	Female (?maturing–mature)	ML: 1770 mm; statolith; LRL: 17.5 mm; URL: 18.8 mm; additional beak measurements	SAM; catalog no. S2562 [specimen SA-7 of Roeleveld (2000)]	Roeleveld (1996); Lipiński (1997:299); Roeleveld (2000:185)		Beak morphometrics studied by Roeleveld (2000).
336	15–16 July 1992	northwest of Chatham Islands; see map {SWP}	Sighting	Architeuthis sp.	Larva(e)			Larva(e)		O'Shea (N.d.)
[7] (📷)	Unknown (reported 1993)	southern Japan {NWP}	Sick/dying animal photographed and filmed in shallow water	Architeuthis dux; Moroteuthis robusta [fide Ellis (1998a:210); Norman (2000:174); Glaubrecht & Salcedo-Vargas (2004:66)] (now known as Onykia robusta; see Bolstad, 2008:106, 2010)	Entire; alive	None			None	Poppe & Goto (1993:pl. 28 fig. 1); Ellis (1998a:210)	Japanese made-for-television film; Norman (2000:174)	Non-architeuthid. Photograph of sick/dying Onykia robusta taken by H. Kubota in shallow water. Squid is shown with diver, although wide-angle photography exaggerates animal's size. A video of the same squid appears in a Japanese made-for-television film (Ellis, 1998a:211). If correctly identified as an architeuthid it would have been the first photo/recording of a live giant squid (Ellis, 1998a:211).
337	14 May 1993	Morne Brabant, Mauritius {SIO}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undetermined		?ML: 4.5 m; WT: 240 kg		Staub (1993:141, pl. 1a,b)	Paxton (2016a:83)	Discussing maximum mantle length in giant squid, Paxton (2016a:83) wrote: "A 4.5 m specimen from Mauritius is often mistakenly cited but consultation of the primary paper (Staub, 1993) reveals an ill-defined length which is clearly not ML."
338	23 December 1993	at edge of mangroves, east side of Hungry Bay, Paget, Bermuda {NWA}	Found floating at surface	Architeuthis dux	Entire?			ML: 7–8 ft (2.1–2.4 m)	[specimen No. 13 of Roper et al. (2015)]	Roper et al. (2015:80)		Collected by Thad Martin; T. Murdoch and C. Bosch-de-Noya also mentioned. Not found in BAMZ collection.
	February 1994	La Palma, Canary Islands {NEA}	Found on beach?	Architeuthis?	"remains"	"small samples"		None given		González & Heylen (2002:71)		Samples taken by biologists and analysed without reaching definitive conclusion.
	March 1994 [9 November fide González & Heylen (2002:70)]	3 mi (4.8 km) off Los Cristianos, southern Tenerife, Canary Islands {NEA}	Found floating at surface	Architeuthis dux	Entire	Entire	Female (adult)	EL: >10 m; WT: 350/600 kg	Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre, Santa Cruz de Tenerife	González & Heylen (2002:69, fig.); [OAMC] (2008); [Anonymous] (2014a); [MNH] (2014)	[Anonymous] (2004); Alcalá (2004)	Found by tourist boat Batros I. Thought to have been attacked by sperm whale 2–3 days earlier; several cetacean teeth found among remains. Replica exhibited in Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre in Santa Cruz de Tenerife; specimen itself was long stored frozen and briefly put on public display as part of temporary exhibition "El Museo Fabulado" between 18 March and 31 May 2011.
339	21 April 1994	Izu-Ogasawara Islands, off central Honshū, Japan (35°20.1′N 143°00.1′E) from surface to 140 m depth {NWP}	By trawl (obliquely-towed plankton net)	Architeuthis sp.	Entire; "not in good condition"	Entire	(juvenile)	ML: 19.8 mm; FL: 4.5 mm; HL: 6.4 mm, additional measurements	Not stated	Tsuchiya & Mori (1998:225)	Roper & Shea (2013:116)
340	May 1994	New Zealand (43°55′S 176°50′E) at 515 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	In pieces		ML: 1850 mm; FL: 760 mm	NMNZ; NMNZ M18019	Förch (1998:109)	O'Shea (2007)	Caught by F/V Dalmor.
341	May 1994	New Zealand (43°48′S 177°35′E) at 514 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Incomplete		ML: 1110 mm; FL: 490 mm	NMNZ; NMNZ M18020	Förch (1998:109)	O'Shea (2007)	Caught by F/V Dalmor.
342 (📷)	August 1994	off Ishikawa-shi (now part of Uruma-shi), Okinawa Prefecture, Japan {NWP}	Not stated	giant squid ("ダイオウイカ")	Entire; tentacles intact	Entire		EL: 6.37 m; WT: 63 kg	Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium	Shimada et al. (2017:9)		On public display. Exhibited at Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, preserved in formalin.
	January 1995	off King Island, Bass Strait {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis				"slightly larger" than specimen of 9 March 1995		Zeidler & Gowlett-Holmes (1996:85)
343	January 1995	500 km off South Island, New Zealand {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis				"even larger" than January 1995 specimen from King Island		Zeidler & Gowlett-Holmes (1996:85)
344	9 March 1995	~3.2 nm SSE of Cape Banks, Australia (37°56.32′S 140°20.79′E) {SWP}	Found floating at surface, recently dead	Architeuthis sp.	Entire, tail damaged, all arms damaged (with most tips missing), tentacles damaged (left missing club, right with detached club portion), eyes missing, head detached	Entire	Female	ML: 1530 mm; VML: 1400 mm; MW: 440 mm; MT: 40 mm [maximum]; HL: 320 mm; HW: 270 mm; WT: 48 kg (mantle) + 38 kg (head with limbs); more FL: 430 mm; FW: 175 mm; FuL: 250 mm; FuD: 110 mm; FuCL: 190 mm; FuCW: 50 mm [maximum]; GL: 1440 mm; GW: 190 mm [maximum]; RL: 340 mm; RW: 130 mm [maximum]; EyOD: 170 mm; distance between eye orbits (dorsally): 90 mm; RL: 70 mm [curled]; RW: 10 mm [between teeth, maximum]; AL(I): 810/610 mm; AL(II): 1450/1120 mm; AL(III): 1330/1290 mm; AL(IV): 1140/1750 mm; ASD: 7–14 mm [left arm I]; TL: 4260/2970 mm (7390 mm total incl. detached club portion); DC: 195 mm; MaL: 410 mm; CaL: 130 mm; CW: 50 mm [maximum]; CSD: 25 mm [maximum]; LRL: 18 mm; URL: 18 mm; additional beak measurements	SAMA; SAMA D18936 (main specimen) + B80 (frozen sample) + XD0040 (alcohol-fixed sample)	Zeidler & Gowlett-Holmes (1996:85)	Ellis (1998a:6)	Caught by Martin Von Stanke on F/V Ocean Lady over ~25 m bottom depth. Stored on ice and transported to museum (with assistance of Thierry Laperousaz) after 1 day without prior freezing. Tissue samples from digestive gland and arm (SAMA B80) saved at −80 °C, muscle samples from mantle and tentacle (SAMA XD0040) preserved in 100% alcohol. more Beak, radula and fragmented gladius removed and preserved separately. Stomach contained only 9 undetermined squid suckers (13–16 mm diameter) and remains of others. Two large gashes (~20 cm) on left side of mantle may indicate predator attack (but no whales sighted in area at the time).
345	2 April 1995	Golfo San Jorge, Argentina (46°30′S 66°00′W) at 70 m depth {SWA}	By trawl	Architeuthis			Female (mature)	ML: 1625 mm	Museo de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia, Buenos Aires	Brunetti et al. (1998:xxx)	Ré et al. (1998:109); [Anonymous] (1999a); Brunetti et al. (1999:16)
346	26 April 1995	west of Aran Islands, Ireland (53°00′N 12°20′W) at 287 m depth {NEA}	By 80 mm mesh benthic trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undetermined	Male (mature)	ML: 1028 mm; MW: 379 mm; TL: 4555 mm; EL: 5970 mm; WT: 26.9 kg; more HL: 275 mm; HW: 135 mm; AL(I): 870 mm; AL(II): not measured; AL(III): 1054 mm; AL(IV): 1512/1465 mm; LAL: 1512 mm; TCL: 504 mm; DC: 158 mm; MaL: 252 mm; CaL: 94 mm; HeL: no obs.; FL: 390 mm; FW: 298 mm (one fin: 149 mm); EyD: 80 mm; PL: 555 mm; SoA: no obs.; SL: 125–150 mm; LRL: 10.9 mm; URL: 12.5 mm; SInc: 294; G(W): 4.25%	NMI; catalog no. 14-1995	Collins et al. (1997:562); Guerra et al. (2004b:8)	Lordan et al. (1998:905); Collins (1998:489); O'Sullivan (2017)	Taken by trawler Sionnainn, skippered by Michael Flannery. Flannery's son caught two giant squid in the same area in 2017.
347	24 June 1995	Porcupine Bank, Ireland (52°25′N 13°45′W) at 300 m depth {NEA}	By 80 mm mesh benthic trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undeterminded	Male (mature)	ML: 975 mm; MW: 335 mm; EL: 5950 mm; WT: 22.45 kg; more HL: 270 mm; HW: 137 mm; TL: 4823 mm; TCL: 500 mm; DC: 172 mm; MaL: 252/236 mm; CaL: 77/92 mm; FL: 356 mm; FW: 266 mm; EyD: 95 mm; PL: 574 mm; SoA: no obs.; SL: 120–140 mm; HeL: no obs.; LRL: 12.7 mm; URL: 12 mm; SInc: 375; G(W): 3.29%	NMI; catalog no. 44-1995	Collins et al. (1997:562); Guerra et al. (2004b:8)	Lordan et al. (1998:905); Collins (1998:489); O'Sullivan (2017)	Taken by trawler Sionnainn, skippered by Michael Flannery. Flannery's son caught two giant squid in the same area in 2017.
348	25 June 1995	southwest Aran Islands, Ireland (52°50′N 10°20′W) at 110 m depth {NEA}	By 80 mm mesh benthic trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Undetermined	Male (mature)	ML: 1084 mm; MW: 335 mm; WT: 26.5 kg; more HL: 288 mm; HW: 144 mm; AL(IV): 1111 mm; LAL: 1111 mm; FL: 368 mm; FW: 264 mm; EyD: 96 mm; HeL: no obs.; PL: 702 mm; SoA: no obs.; SL: 135–155 mm; LRL: 13.3 mm; URL: 10 mm; SInc: 422; G(W): 2.96%	NMI; catalog no. 43-1995	Collins et al. (1997:562); Guerra et al. (2004b:8)	Lordan et al. (1998:905); Collins (1998:489)	Taken by trawler Galway.
	26 June 1995	off Fowey Rocks Light, Florida, United States (Straits of Florida) (24°45′N 81°00′W; given as "24°45'N 81°W") {NWA}	Found floating at surface	Architeuthis dux	Entire?, "mutilated remains"			EL: 15–18 ft (4.6–5.5 m); WT: 60 lb (27 kg)	[specimen No. 14 of Roper et al. (2015)]	Roper et al. (2015:80)		Identified based on photo.
349	10 July 1995	South Africa (32°50′S 16°40′E) {SEA}	Undetermined	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Entire	Male (mature)	ML: 1180 mm; statolith; LRL: 14.1 mm; URL: 15.4 mm; additional beak measurements	SAM; catalog no. S3353 [specimen SA-10 of Roeleveld (2000)]	Lipiński (1997:299); Roeleveld (2000:185)		Beak morphometrics studied by Roeleveld (2000).
350	15 July 1995	Golfo San Jorge, Bahía Bustamante, Argentina (45°12′S 66°30′W) {SWA}	Found washed ashore on mat of seaweed				Female (immature)	ML: 1300 mm		Ruiz & Fondacaro (1996)	Ré et al. (1998:109); Brunetti et al. (1999:16)
351	27 September 1995	Playa de los Pozos, Asturias, Spain {NEA}	By seine fishing	Architeuthis dux	Entire?			WT: 160 kg		Guerra et al. (2006:258)		Caught by the boats Nuevo Juanito and Hermanos of Avilés using a seine.
352	1 December 1995	off South Island, New Zealand (43°24'–43°31'S 169°20'–169°10'E) at 305 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Entire			NIWA	Puente (1996); O'Shea (2007)		Collected by T. Devlin on F/V J. Elaine. O'Shea (2007) gives coordinates as 43°24.31′S 169°20.10′E.
353	December 1995	off New Zealand (43°26′S 176°23′E) {SWP}		Architeuthis	Entire?	Entire?, left tentacle loose	Male (mature)	ML: 1200 mm; TL: 2757+ mm [left]; CL: 552 mm [left]; CSC: 247 [left]; TSC: 278 [left]; additional indices and counts	NMNZ; NMNZ Z.8900 [specimen NZ-36 of Roeleveld (2002)]	Roeleveld (2002:727)		Tentacle morphology examined by Roeleveld (2002).
354	31 December 1995	off South Island, New Zealand (43°12.3′S 178°19.9′W) at 425 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Entire, both tentacles loose	Female (maturing?)	ML: 2000 mm; WT: ~600 lb (270 kg); TL: 7300 mm [TL: 5702/4813 mm fide Roeleveld (2002:729)]; CL: 850 mm [812/753 mm fide Roeleveld (2002:735)]; CSC: 243/242; TSC: 273/268; additional indices and counts	NMNZ; NMNZ Z.8436 [specimen NZ-16 of Roeleveld (2002)]	Ellis (1997a:1); Förch (1998:specimen 16); Roeleveld (2002:727, figs. 2–3)	Puente (1996); [Anonymous] (1996a); O'Shea (2007)	Collected by FRV Tangaroa. Originally deposited at NIWA. Tentacle morphology examined by Roeleveld (2002).
355	31 December 1995	off New Zealand (43°12′S 178°20′W) at 425 m depth {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)		Listed as separate record by O'Shea (2007).
356	Unknown (reported 1996)	near Mt Gambier, off Cape Banks, South Australia {SWP}	Found floating at surface	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Entire	Female	WT: 86 kg; BL+HL: 1.85 m; AL: 1.75 m (longest); TL: 7.39 m (longest); EyOD: 17 cm; EL: >9 m	SAMA	Zeidler (1996:7, fig.)		Female with fully formed ovaries and small white eggs.
357	"very early" January 1996 [16 January fide O'Shea (2007)]	off South Island, New Zealand (43°26.47′S 176°23.17′E) at 310 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Entire	Male	TL: 21 ft (6.4 m)	NIWA	Ellis (1997a:9)	Förch (1998:109); Puente (1996); [Anonymous] (1996a); O'Shea (2007)	Caught by FRV Tangaroa.
358	February 1996	off New Zealand (43°26′S 176°23′E) at 310 m depth {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
359	February 1996	Perlora, Asturias, Spain {NEA}	Not specified	Architeuthis dux	Mantle severed in its first third, missing arms and tentacles					Guerra et al. (2006:258)
360	14 March 1996	off west coast of Tasmania, Australia (42°15′S 144°41′E–42°00′S 144°35′E) at 840–1000 m depth {SWP}	Captured live by commercial trawl fishing for orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus), but likely died under weight of fish during haul to surface	Architeuthis sanctipauli Velain, 1877	Entire, missing majority of skin	Entire	Female (subadult)	ML: 191 cm; EL: 12 m [estimate]	NMV 74479	Norman & Lu (1997:683); Norman (2000:152, fig.); Landman et al. (2004:685)	Ellis (1998a:6)	Isotopic analysis of statolith carried out by Landman et al. (2004) to determine age and habitat. Photographed by David Paul.
361	21 March 1996	off New Zealand (50°50′S 166°55′E) at 420 m depth {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
362	22 March 1996	off west coast of Tasmania, Australia (42°54′S 145°0′E) at 460 m depth {SWP}	Captured live in commercial fishing trawl	Architeuthis sanctipauli Velain, 1877	Entire, skin largely intact	Entire	Female (submature)	ML: 2.4 m; EL: 15 m [intact estimate]; WT: 220 kg; ovary: ~3 kg ("small")	NMV F74482	Norman & Lu (1997:683); Norman (2000:154, 4 figs.); Landman et al. (2004:685)	Ellis (1998a:6); [Anonymous] (2003, fig.); Roper & Shea (2013:116)	Mated female with spermatophores embedded in epidermis of both ventral arms, around 1 m from mouth. Ovary occupying <20% of mantle cavity contained "hundreds of thousands of undeveloped eggs". Adult specimen according to Landman et al. (2004:686). Isotopic analysis of statolith carried out by Landman et al. (2004) to determine age and habitat. Photographed by David Paul.
363	24 May 1996	Golfo San Jorge, Bahía Bustamante, Argentina (45°08′S 66°31′W) {SWA}	Found washed ashore, dead	Architeuthis sp.		Entire	Female (immature)	ML: 1940 mm; ?TL: 4.2 m; WT: 180 kg; see Ré et al. (1998)	MCNOPM	Ré et al. (1996:161, fig. 1); Ré et al. (1998:109)	Brunetti et al. (1999:16, fig. 7A)	Exhibited at the museum of Puerto Madryn. Photographed with two children.
364	10 June 1996	off King Island, Tasmania, Australia, at 1000 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Entire		WT: >200 kg; ?TL: 8 m	NMV	Gannon (1996); [Anonymous] (1996b)	Ellis (1998a:6)	Captured by D. McNamara and R. Bradshaw on trawler Empress Pearl.
365	1 October 1996	off King Island, northwest of Tasmania, Australia (40°S 143°9′E–40°15′S 143°15′E) at 980–1000 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis sanctipauli Velain, 1877	Entire?	Entire	Female (subadult)	ML: 159 cm (without fins)	NMV 78297	Landman et al. (2004:685)	Carlini (1998); Carlini & Graves (1999:60)	Tissue sample used for COI sequence analysis by Carlini (1998) and Carlini & Graves (1999) (GenBank accession: AF000027). Isotopic analysis of statolith carried out by Landman et al. (2004) to determine age and habitat.
366	19 November 1996	off Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico {NEP}	Found in stomach contents of blue shark (Prionace glauca)	Architeuthis sp.	Pair of beaks (from a single specimen)	Entire		LRL: 13.44 mm; ML: 741.5 mm [estimate]; WT: 24365.0 g [estimate]		Markaida & Sosa-Nishizaki (2010)		Live weight constituted an estimated 7.27% of total prey weight from 893 blue sharks sampled. First giant squid record from Mexican waters and southernmost record in the California Current.
367	1996	Chatham Rise, New Zealand {SWP}		Architeuthis				?EL: 26 ft (7.9 m)		O'Shea (1997)	Ellis (1998a:264)
368	1996	Chatham Rise, New Zealand {SWP}		Architeuthis				?EL: 13 ft (4.0 m)		O'Shea (1997)	Ellis (1998a:264)
369	1996	New Zealand {SWP}		Architeuthis				?EL: 22–26 ft (6.7–7.9 m)		O'Shea (1997)	Ellis (1998a:264)
370 (📷)	24 December 1996	Hawai, Tōhaku District, Tottori Prefecture, Japan {NWP}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis japonica	Entire, tentacles missing	Entire		ML: 171 cm; WL: ~450 cm [14.4 ft (4.4 m) fide Ellis, 1998a:264]; EL: ~10 m [estimate; 7–8 m fide Shimada et al., 2017:9]; WT: 120–150 kg	National Museum of Nature and Science (Tokyo)	[NSMT] (2012)	The Japan Times, 1996; Ellis (1998a:264); [Anonymous] (2005); Shimada et al. (2017:9)	On public display. Exhibited at the National Museum of Nature and Science (preserved in formalin), where it formed the backdrop for a press event with Tsunemi Kubodera on the first images of a live giant squid in the wild (#466; [Anonymous], 2005).
	1997	off Sergipe, Brazil {SWA}	"found"	Architeuthis						Martins & Perez (2009)		Unreported prior to Martins & Perez (2009).
371 (📷)	16 July 1997	North Sea at 100 m depth {NEA}	Caught in net	Architeuthis	Entire; tentacles intact	Entire		?EL: 5 m	SMNH	SMNH (2015); SMNH (N.d.)		On public display. Caught by Danish fishermen. Exhibited in tank at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm.
	28 October 1997	10 mi (16 km) offshore, Bahamas (Straits of Florida) {NWA}	Found floating at surface	Architeuthis dux	Entire?, "completely intact body"			None given	[specimen No. 15 of Roper et al. (2015)]	Roper et al. (2015:80)		Found over bottom depth of 2000 m.
372	December 1997 – April 1998	Chatham Rise, New Zealand {SWP}	"Captured"	Architeuthis	Seven specimens		5 males (mature), 2 females (mature)			Landman et al. (1999:72)
373	27 December 1997	Merneo Bank, Chatham Rise, New Zealand (44°20.4–23.5'S 173°54.3–37.0'E) at 671–674 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire; tentacles broken off, minor damage to fins and one arm	Entire	Male (mature)	ML: 1.24 m; ?WL: 25.25 ft (7.70 m) ["without ten[t]acles"; see [AMNH], 2013]; WT: ~200 lb (91 kg) [220 kg per specimen label; see [AMNH], 2013]; EyD: 6 in (15 cm); beak crest length: 47.5 mm	AMNH; AMNH 291938	[AMNH] (1998a); [AMNH] (1998b); Landman & Ellis (1998:150, fig.); Cordeiro & Hussaini (1999:25); Landman et al. (1999:72); Dussling & Johnson (1999); [AMNH] (1999); Pollak (1999); [AMNH] (2013)	Tanabe (2012:12); Tanabe et al. (2015:35)	Collected by commercial fishermen of F/V Aquila. Offered as gift to AMNH by Steve O'Shea of NIWA, who contacted Neil Landman in March 1998. Transported from Wellington to New York City by combination of refrigerated trucks and air cargo (with unscheduled delay in Los Angeles). Received by AMNH still frozen on 10 June 1998, as first specimen in its history. Photographed by Portia Rollings of AMNH upon arrival. Examined and preserved by Landman and Paula Mikkelsen. more Tissue samples taken and beak and radula removed and placed in 95% ethanol. Specimen injected with and fixed in 10% saline formalin solution. Kept this way for 2 weeks and buffered in first 4 days (ultimately with sodium bicarbonate) to preserve sucker rings. Next subjected to 5 days of freshwater washes and finally transferred to 70/75% ethanol. Mature spermatophore found in mantle cavity. Put on display in Hall of Biodiversity from 12 October 1999, in 1500-litre stainless steel and fibreglass tank (built under direction of David Harvey) with tentacles taken from different New Zealand specimen. Covered in 1999 children's book Giant Squid: Mystery of the Deep (Dussling & Johnson, 1999).
374	18 January 1998	Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Entire	Female	ML: 1230 mm; see Collins (1998:491)	NMSZ	Collins (1998:491)	Boyle & Rodhouse (2005:196, fig. 12.1.1)
375	13 March 1998	off New Zealand (42°50.9–49.8'S 177°16.6'–176°55.3'E) at 489–475 m depth {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
376	9 April 1998	South Patagonian shelf, off Argentina (50°39.0′S 66°35.3′W) at 105 m depth (bottom depth also 105 m) {SWA}	By bottom trawl	Architeuthis sp.			Female	ML: 1.4 m	Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP)	Brunetti et al. (2002)	[Anonymous] (1999a); Brunetti et al. (1999:16)	Taken by the vessel Kasuga Maru of the Pespasa fishing company. Collected by fishery inspector. Surface water temperature recorded as 9.1 °C and air temperature as 14 °C.
377	9 April 1998	off New Zealand (44°00′S 177°35′W) at 500 m depth {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
378	10 April 1998	off New Zealand (43°56.8'–44°03.8'S 175°51.6–30.1'E) at 519–523 m depth {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
379	18 April 1998	about ten miles (16 km) from Saint Paul, La Réunion Island (21°00′S 55°45′E) {SIO}	Found floating at surface	Architeuthis dux	"big chunk of flesh ... including the base of the arms, head and the upper part of the mantle"	Buccal mass, beak; tip of rostrum of lower beak broken		LRL: 17.0–17.5 mm [estimate]; ML: 174–193 cm [estimate]		Cherel (2003:1295)		Fishermen reported rapid skin colour change, suggesting chromatophores were still active and specimen was freshly dead. Other remains of large squid were observed. Sperm whales said to have occurred in the area at the time.
380 (📷)	mid-1998	beach near Fuengirola, Andalusia, Spain {MED}	Found washed ashore dead but relatively fresh	Architeuthis	Entire	Entire	Female (immature)	ML: ~125 cm	Museo Alborania, Aula del Mar de CREMA, Málaga, Spain	Guerra et al. (2006:89)		On public display. First known giant squid specimen from the Mediterranean Sea. Preserved in formaldehyde. Found in 1997 according to museum guide.
381	28 July 1998	off New Zealand (42°32.2′S 170°24.1′E) at 500–575 m depth {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
382	29 July 1998	off New Zealand (41°59'–42°10'S 170°32–33'E) at 405 m depth {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
383	31 July 1998	off New Zealand (41°05′S 170°50′E) at 452–526 m depth {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
384	20 August 1998	off New Zealand (42°00′S 170°30′E) {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
385	13 November 1998	Kerguelen waters in southern Polar Frontal Zone (47°14′S 69°23′E) at 630–710 m depth {SIO}	Found in stomach contents of sleeper shark (Somniosus sp.)	Architeuthis dux	Lower and upper beak	Entire		LRL: 15.51 mm; ML: 128 cm [estimate]		Cherel (2003:1296); Cherel & Duhamel (2004:25)	Rincon (2004)	Mantle length estimated using allometric equation from Roeleveld (2000).
386	19 December 1998	off New Zealand (43°18.5–32.6'S 174°10.5–17.7'E) at 567 m depth {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
387	between 26 December 1998 and 9 February 1999	off New Zealand (44°11.2′S 178°15.7′W) at 500 m depth {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
[8]	1999 (reported)	New Zealand {SWP}		Architeuthis; Asperoteuthis lui Salcedo-Vargas, 1999						Salcedo-Vargas (1999)		Non-architeuthid.
388	7 January 1999	off New Zealand (43°51.34'S 173°20'–174°37'E) {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
389	22 January 1999	off New Zealand (43°33′S 174°18′E) {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
390	22 January 1999	off New Zealand (44°08.2'–43°58.5'S 175°20.3'–174°45.5'E) {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
391	27 January 1999	off New Zealand (44°20.5′S 177°08.8′W) at 504 m depth {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
392	12 February 1999	off New Zealand (44°16.0′S 179°16.7′W) at 545 m depth {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
393	15 February 1999	South Patagonian shelf, <30 mi (48 km) off Isla de los Estados, Argentina (53°54.6′S 63°45.9′W) at 316–360 m depth (bottom depth 450 m) {SWA}	By midwater trawl	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	Entire	Female	ML: 1.7 m; ?WL: >3 m; WT: 150 kg	Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP)	[Anonymous] (1999a); Brunetti et al. (2002)	Brunetti et al. (1999:16)	Taken by the vessel Rikuzen of the Pesantar SA fishing company in 105 m long drag net. Collected by scientific observer. Frozen onboard with arms reconstructed after being crushed by weigh of fish catch. Landed in Ushuaia on 18 March 1999 and thawed on 22 March for sample collection. Examined by Silvana Pineda and others from Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP), who travelled especially from Mar del Plata.
394	16 February 1999	Kerguelen waters in southern Polar Frontal Zone (48°11′S 71°15′E) at 550–870 m depth {SIO}	Found in stomach contents of sleeper shark (Somniosus sp.)	Architeuthis dux	Lower and upper beak	Entire		LRL: 16.33 mm; ML: 152 cm [estimate]		Cherel (2003:1296); Cherel & Duhamel (2004:25)	Rincon (2004)	Mantle length estimated using allometric equation from Roeleveld (2000).
395	9 March 1999	off New Zealand (48°50.2′S 167°12.3′E) {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
396 (📷)	15 March 1999	off New Zealand (48º36.1–54.2'S 166º15.2–24.4'E) at 798 m depth {SWP}	By trawl	Architeuthis	Entire; tentacles intact	Entire		EL: 27 ft (8.2 m)	Mote Aquarium, Mote Marine Laboratory	O'Shea (2007); [Mote] (2015); Ginsberg (2018)	[Anonymous] (2007b)	On public display. Nicknamed "Molly the Mollusk". Transferred to Mote Marine Laboratory in 1999 and exhibited at Mote Aquarium since 2001. Spent two years as part of travelling exhibit "Sea Monsters" before returning to Mote in September 2015; displayed at "Exploration Gallery" (formerly "Shark Attack Theater").
397	16 March 1999	off New Zealand (48º49.55'S 166º53'–167º16'E) {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
398	5 April 1999	Goulding Cay, Northeast Providence Channel, Bahamas (25°01′38.7″N 77°34′27.3″W; given as "25°1'387"N 77°34'273"W") {NWA}	Found floating at surface	Architeuthis sp.; Architeuthis dux	Entire, "whole specimen"; distal half of tentacles missing	Entire, in two pieces	Male (mature)	EL: 11 ft (3.4 m) [missing tentacle ends]	RSMAS; "Ex UMML 31.3125" [specimen No. 16 of Roper et al. (2015)]	[Anonymous] (1999b:1); Roper et al. (2015:80)		Found over bottom depth of 2300 m.
399	14 May 1999	off New Zealand (43°28.35′S 174°14′E) at 515 m depth {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
400	3 June 1999	6 mi (9.7 km) east of Fowey Rocks Light, Florida, United States (Straits of Florida) (25°35′N 80°07′W) {NWA}	Found floating at surface, dead	Architeuthis sp.; Architeuthis dux	Entire in "fresh" condition but heavily mutilated; missing distal third of mantle (incl. fins), tentacles, and ends of all arms but arm I(R)	Entire		ML: 700 mm; ML: 1000 mm [intact estimate]; WT: ~20 kg [intact estimate]; Roper et al. (2015:80) give unspecified measurement (total length of remains?) of "110 cm 3.6 ft"	RSMAS; catalog no. UMML 31.312b / 31.3126 [specimen No. 17 of Roper et al. (2015)]	Seibel et al. (2000:286); Roper et al. (2015:80)		Collected by charter-boat Top Dog (Capt. Phil Slaga and Mate Bo Spieler). Found over bottom depth of >300 m. Taken to RSMAS where kept on ice or in refrigerated cold room for ~3 days prior to dissection. Wet weight estimated using mass–length relationship of O'Dor (1988) for ommastrephid squids. Mantle tissue used in study of enzymatic activity by Seibel et al. (2000), providing first estimates of giant squid metabolism and locomotory ability.
401	14 June 1999	off west coast of Tasmania, Australia, at 500–700 m depth {SWP}	Caught by trawler fishing for blue grenadier	Architeuthis sp.	Entire?	Entire?	Male	WT: 190 kg		Deagle et al. (2005:417); Deagle (2006:27)		Specimen was kept frozen in storage until dissection in September 2002. Gut contents underwent genetic screening for prey.
402	13 July 1999	off New Zealand (41°03.1′S 170°42.4′E) at 530 m depth {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
403	15 July 1999	off New Zealand (42°33′S 170°31′E) at 460 m depth {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
404	17 July 1999	off New Zealand (42°31.32′S 170°21.09′E) at 535 m depth {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)		Temperature (BT) recorded as 11.5 °C.
405	21 July 1999	off New Zealand (42°27.32′S 170°28.10′E) at 442 m depth {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
406	5 August 1999	off New Zealand (41°56′S 170°26′E) at 500 m depth {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
407	29 August 1999	nearly 175 miles (282 km) off Santa Catarina, Brazil (28°05′S 45°35′W) over 2,400 m deep waters {SWA}	Found floating at surface	Architeuthis	Entire; arm pairs I, II, III half-missing, arm pair IV complete, tentacles missing, reproductive system virtually missing	Entire	Female (mature)	ML: 1160 mm; WT: 50 kg; WL: 2480 mm; MW: 460 mm; HL: 270 mm; HW: 360 mm; FL: 460 mm; FW: 380 mm; FuL: 450 mm [ventral]; FuCL: 125 mm; FuCW: 61 mm; AL(I): 520/510 mm; AL(II): 620/560 mm; AL(III): 750/550 mm; AL(IV): 960/800 mm; ASD: 18 mm [maximum]; GiL: 280 mm; LRL: 15 mm; URL: 20 mm; other measurements	Museu Nacional-RJ (MNRJ 10761)	Martins & Perez (2009, figs. 1–14)		Spotted by crew of Brazilian long-liner Macedo V. Spermatophores embedded in left ventral arm, around 60 cm from mouth. Small number of eggs present (~2.0 mm wide). Authors found "a few peculiarities [...] [i]n the shape of the fins, head and the cross-section and length of ventral arms".
408	November 1999	Carrandi, Asturias, Spain {NEA}	By trawl	Architeuthis dux				WT: 107 kg [dead]		Guerra et al. (2006:258)		Collected by the trawler Minchos VI.
	23 November 1999	Bloody Bay Wall, Cayman Islands (Caribbean Sea) (19°44′N 79°48′W) {NWA}	Not stated	Architeuthis dux	Not stated			None given	[specimen No. 18 of Roper et al. (2015)]	Roper et al. (2015:81)
409	9 December 1999	approximately 34 miles (55 km) from Gijón, off coast of Asturias, Spain (43°52.54′N 05°18.74′W) at 300–600 m depth {NEA}	By trawl; caught alive	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire; missing tentacles and arms I, II, III; arm IV(R) not intact	Entire	Female (immature)	ML: 1800 mm; MW: 560 mm; WT: 148 kg; more VML: 1650 mm; MT: 30 mm; HW: 415 mm; AL(IV): 2160/178 mm (second not intact); LRL: 20.5 mm; URL: 21.0 mm; GL: 1670 mm; GW: 200 mm; FL: 690 mm; FW: 515 mm; EyD: 130 mm [estimate]; FuL: 260 mm; FuCL: 175 mm; FuCW: 41 mm; GiL: 500 mm; NGL: 340 mm	CEPESMA	González et al. (2002); Guerra et al. (2004b:4); Guerra et al. (2006:258)		First record of a living specimen collected in Spanish Atlantic waters. Caught by Spanish pair trawlers Minchos V and Minchos VI based in Cillero, Lugo. more Auctioned off in the market of Avilés and acquired by Pescaderias Jiménez (Jiménez Fishmarkets) of Avilés. Specimen was frozen immediately after measurements were taken. It was later defrosted, dissected, and reconstructed. It was placed in a transparent glass case and fixed for 48 hours in 4% formalin. It is now preserved in 70% alcohol.
410	Unknown (between 1954 and 2000)	off New Zealand (42°35.41′S 170°15.03′E) at 400 m depth {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)		Date not recorded.
411	Unknown (between 1954 and 2000)	off New Zealand (42°31.9′S 170°16.6′E) {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)		MFish SOP Trip 1247/7.
412	Unknown (reported 2000)	North Atlantic (otherwise "no data") {NEA/NWA}		Architeuthis			Female (maturing)	ML: 1180 mm; TL: 4395/4320 mm; CL: 785/680 mm; CSC: 260/243; TSC: 286/272; LRL: 15.7 mm; URL: 14.9 mm; additional beak measurements, indices, and counts	VSM [specimen NA-22 of Roeleveld (2000) and Roeleveld (2002)]	Roeleveld (2000:185); Roeleveld (2002:727)		Beak morphometrics studied by Roeleveld (2000). Tentacle morphology examined by Roeleveld (2002).
413	25 January 2000	off New Zealand (43°48.47′S 174°47.46′E) at 476 m depth {SWP}		Architeuthis						O'Shea (2007)
414 (📷)	27 January 2000	off New Zealand (44°21.19'S 175°05'–174°34'E) at 615 m depth {SWP}	"Hauled up" by fishermen	Architeuthis sanctipauli	Entire	Entire		EL: 6.5 m ["lost 2.5 metres (seven feet) of its length through drying out"]; WT: 80 kg [after preservation]	MNHN	[Anonymous] (2008a); [Anonymous] (2008b); [MNHN] (N.d.); [Anonymous] (2019a); [Anonymous] (2019b)	O'Shea (2007)	On public display. Named "Wheke" after a sea monster of Māori mythology. Donated by NIWA of New Zealand to the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. Became the first giant squid specimen to be plastinated; consolidated using structures inserted into tentacles, arms and funnel; 300 suckers reconstituted, original beak replaced, glass eyes inserted, and coloured to approximate natural appearance. Since 2008 on display on ground floor of the Gallery of Evolution (grande galerie de l'Évolution), MNHN. Restored in March 2019 by head MNHN taxidermist Christophe Gottini and assistant Vincent Cuisset over period of at least 30 hours ahead of exhibition "Ocean, an unusual dive", held from 3 April 2019 to 5 January 2020; old paint replaced. Specimen had originally been exposed to dust while still sticky, altering its appearance significantly.
415	22 March 2000	Kerguelen waters in southern Polar Frontal Zone (47°10′S 69°23′E) at 490–620 m depth {SIO}	Found in stomach contents of sleeper shark (Somniosus sp.)	Architeuthis dux	Lower and upper beak			LRL: 11.78 mm; ML: 60 cm [estimate]		Cherel (2003:1296); Cherel & Duhamel (2004:25)	Rincon (2004)	Mantle length estimated using allometric equation from Roeleveld (2000).
416	2 April 2000	Asturias, Spain {NEA}	Found in stomach contents of shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus)	Architeuthis	Tentacle			TL: 2 m		Guerra et al. (2006:258)		Caught by Spanish vessel Teresa José from Luarca.
417	24 April 2000	Kerguelen waters in southern Polar Frontal Zone (48°26′S 70°58′E) at 680–755 m depth {SIO}	Found in stomach contents of sleeper shark (Somniosus sp.)	Architeuthis dux	Lower beak only			LRL: 11.33 mm; ML: 54 cm [estimate]		Cherel (2003:1296); Cherel & Duhamel (2004:25)	Rincon (2004)	Mantle length estimated using allometric equation from Roeleveld (2000).
418	10 May 2000	Kerguelen waters in southern Polar Frontal Zone (47°25′S 69°14′E) at 420 m depth {SIO}	Found in stomach contents of sleeper shark (Somniosus sp.)	Architeuthis dux	Lower and upper beak; broken					Cherel (2003:1296); Cherel & Duhamel (2004:25)	Rincon (2004)
419	9 August 2000	off New Zealand; see map {SWP}	Sighting	Architeuthis sp.	Larva(e)			Larva(e)		O'Shea (N.d.)
420	28 September 2000	south of Wellington, North Island; see map {SWP}	Sighting	Architeuthis sp.	Larva(e)			Larva(e)		O'Shea (N.d.)
	20 October 2000	Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States (Straits of Florida) (26°10′N 80°00′W; given as "26°10'N 80°W") {NWA}	Found floating at surface	Architeuthis dux	Entire, "completely intact body"; tentacles and arm tips missing		Male (mature)	WL: 14 ft (4.3 m)	[specimen No. 19 of Roper et al. (2015)]	Roper et al. (2015:81)		Found over bottom depth of c. 2000 m. Sample used as part of mitogenomic study of Winkelmann et al. (2013).
421	15 December 2000	in the vicinity of Amsterdam Island (37°50′S 77°33′E) {SIO}	Found floating at surface	Architeuthis dux	"large mantle"; head and gladius missing	Two funnel locking cartilages and one nuchal cartilage		Funnel locking cartilages: 146/148 mm; Nuchal cartilage: "large"		Cherel (2003:1295)		Collected by French trawler Austral. Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross (Diomedea chlororhynchos) observed feeding on corpse. Fishermen reported two other specimens of large squid observed in previous weeks.
422	Unknown	east of Palmerston North, North Island; see map {SWP}	Sighting	Architeuthis sp.	Larva(e)			Larva(e)		O'Shea (N.d.)
423	Unknown (reported 2001 or slightly earlier)	Hawaii {NEP}	Found floating at surface after having "had a tangle with a shark"	Architeuthis	Entire, bearing bite marks	Not specified		WT: 175 lb (79 kg) [estimate]		[Anonymous] (c. 2001); O'Shea (2005)		Found by crew of the Illusions charter boat "while filming a TV show with Capt. Norm Issacs for ESPN". Photographed reconstructed on jetty, with head, limbs and anterior portion of mantle shown ventrally, but (detached) finned posterior end of mantle arranged dorsally (O'Shea, 2005).

For later records, see List of giant squid specimens and sightings (21st century) § List of giant squid.

Specimen images

The following images relate to 20th century giant squid specimens and sightings. The number below each image corresponds to that given in the List of giant squid table and is linked to the relevant record therein. The date on which the specimen was first documented is also given (the little-endian day/month/year date format is used throughout).

For images of earlier specimens, see List of giant squid specimens and sightings § Specimen images.

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  #82 (?/2/1912)
  Giant squid found in shallow water in Veiholmen, Smøla, Norway, in February 1912 (Brinkmann, 1916:181, fig. 3)
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  #86 (22/11/1915)
  Specimen found washed ashore north of Bergen, Norway, on 22 November 1915 (Brinkmann, 1916:177, fig. 1)
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  #90 (10/1/1918)
  Ventral view and details of the mature male giant squid obtained by Madoka Sasaki from a Tokyo fish market on 10 January 1918. Also shown are gladii (internal shell remnants) of two other squid species: Onychoteuthis banksii (fig. 12) and Onykia loennbergii (fig. 13).
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  British newspaper article from 1918, speculating about possible encounters between giant squid and German U-boats. Reference is made to "fragments of squid" in such condition that the animals must have "been in battle with some adversary more powerful than any sea creature".
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  ?#95 (?/?/1922)
  Giant squid found washed ashore at Keiss, Caithness, Scotland, per The Wick Society. According to Bright (1989:64–65), who does not specify a date, this specimen "came ashore on the Scottish west coast" (emphasis added). Heuvelmans (2003:fig. 113), who likewise provides no date, gives the locality as "the east coast of Scotland".
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  ?#95 (?/?/1922)
  Wider view of the same photograph (see also cropped version)
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  ?#95 (?/?/1922)
  Another view of the Keiss specimen (see alternate take)
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  #102 (4/3/1928)
  Specimen found washed ashore in Ranheim, Norway, measuring around 7.9 m in total length
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  #107 (1930–1933)
  Arne Grønningsæter's sketch of his supposed encounter with a giant squid in the open ocean between Hawaii and Samoa in 1930–1933 (Grønningsæter, 1946:380, fig. 1). The animal was observed swimming at 20–25 kn (37–46 km/h) alongside a 15,000-ton freighter before turning towards the ship, colliding with the hull, skidding along it, and being ground to pieces by the propeller.
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  #108 (14/1/1933)
  Hand-coloured black-and-white photograph of the giant squid found washed ashore on Scarborough's south beach, England, on 14 January 1933, from a magic lantern slide (c. 1930s) as featured in Robin Lidster's Scarborough From Old Photographs (Lidster, 2018)
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  #108 (14/1/1933)
  Further photographs showing a crowd gathering around the beached carcass (see also wider views of left frame and right frame)
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  #108 (14/1/1933)
  Locals standing beside the Scarborough giant squid (Clarke, 1933:157, fig.)
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  #108 (14/1/1933)
  Photograph taken by William James Clarke, after whom the specimen was described as Architeuthis clarkei, from a plate hand coloured by him
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  #108 (14/1/1933)
  The same specimen on display at Scarborough fish market
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  #108 (14/1/1933)
  The specimen was featured on the cover of The Illustrated London News on 21 January 1933, a week after its discovery
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  #108 (14/1/1933)
  Ventral (left) and dorsal views of the specimen after it had been transferred to the Natural History Museum in London, from the type description of Robson (1933). Robson wrote that "the exaggerated narrowness of the head is due to the sagging of the sides of the mantle" (Robson, 1933:683).
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  #108 (14/1/1933)
  Radular teeth of the Scarborough giant squid (Robson, 1933:683, text-fig. 1; see also lateral tooth)
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  #108 (14/1/1933)
  Horny ring of tenth sucker of arm III (Robson, 1933:684, text-fig. 3; see also first sucker of same)
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  #108 (14/1/1933)
  Lower beak of the Scarborough specimen; the upper beak was not well preserved (Robson, 1933:687, text-fig. 6)
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  #108 (14/1/1933)
  Funnel–mantle locking apparatus of the giant squid (right), which Robson (1933:696) considered "remarkably feeble and ill-developed or degenerate" as compared to the "very efficient" apparatus of Sthenoteuthis (left) (Robson, 1933:688, text-fig. 7)
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  #109 (?/12/1933)
  Giant squid found near Dildo, Newfoundland, in December 1933, stretched out on a tarpaulin. Photograph by E. Maunder, taken when the squid was landed at St. John's (Frost, 1934:114 & pl. 1).
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  #109 (?/12/1933)
  Photograph by A. Proctor of the Dildo specimen in lateral view, the detached head and caudal ("tail") section placed in approximately natural positions (Frost, 1934:114 & pl. 1).
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  #109 (?/12/1933)
  Oral view of the Dildo giant squid
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  #109 (?/12/1933)
  Tentacular club (fig. 1) and basal portion of the arm (fig. 2) of the Dildo specimen, from Frost (1934:114 & pl. 2)
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  #109 (?/12/1933)
  Dissected mantle showing internal organs (Frost, 1934:114 & pl. 3; see also labelled diagram of same and caudal fin)
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  #109 (?/12/1933)
  Various suckers from the tentacular club and arms of the Dildo specimen (Frost, 1934:108, fig. 2)
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  #109 (?/12/1933)
  Details of the radular teeth (Frost, 1934:109, fig. 3; see also teeth of the membrane lining the palate)
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  #110 (26/6/1935)
  Semi-schematic illustration of the giant squid taken by trawl in the Bay of Biscay on 26 June 1935, from Cadenat (1936:278, fig. 1)
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  #110 (26/6/1935)
  The beak and surrounding musculature of the Bay of Biscay giant squid (Cadenat, 1936:281, fig. 2)
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  #110 (26/6/1935)
  Details of the radular teeth of the same specimen (Cadenat, 1936:282, fig. 3)
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  #111 (12/11/1935)
  Joe Ezekiel of Harbour Main, Newfoundland, with the giant squid he found off Holyrood on 12 November 1935 (see wider view)
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  #111 (12/11/1935)
  Another view of the Holyrood specimen, which was destroyed in a fire shortly after its capture
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  #111 (12/11/1935)
  The Holyrood specimen spread out on wooden planks, its arms held aloft by Joe Ezekiel and other locals
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  #111 (12/11/1935)
  Mantle and occipital region of Holyrood specimen, from Frost (1936:90, fig. 1) (see also funnel–mantle locking apparatus, digestive system and liver, and terminal portion of rectum)
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  #111 (12/11/1935)
  Suckers of arms II and IV (Frost, 1936:92, fig. 3)
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  #111 (12/11/1935)
  Upper and lower beaks (Frost, 1936:93, fig. 6; see also radular teeth)
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  #111 (12/11/1935)
  Gladius (internal shell remnant), with more flexible area indicated (Frost, 1936:94, fig. 10)
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  #114 (?/10/1938)
  Beak of the giant squid found washed ashore near Ravenscar, England, in October 1938 (Clarke, 1939:136, fig.). The only part of the animal that was saved, it was secured by William James Clarke and forwarded by him to London's Natural History Museum.
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  #120 (?/9/1946)
  Giant squid that washed ashore in Romsdalsfjord, Romsdal, Norway, in September 1946. It measured 9.35 m (30.7 ft) in total length and was described as being quite fresh and well-preserved (Myklebust, 1946).
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  #124 (30/11/1949)
  The specimen that was found stranded alive at the Bay of Nigg, Aberdeen, Scotland, on 30 November 1949, being examined at the Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen shortly after its discovery.
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  #124 (30/11/1949)
  Another view of the same specimen; both this and the previous photograph were originally published in the Aberdeen Bon-Accord and Northern Pictorial and later reproduced in Rae (1950)
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  #137 (2/10/1954)
  Giant squid measuring 9.24 m in total length that washed ashore at Ranheim in Trondheimsfjord, Norway, on 2 October 1954
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  #137 (2/10/1954)
  The specimen was featured on the cover of the December 1954 issue of the Norwegian Zoological Society's quarterly journal, Fauna: Norsk Zoologisk Forenings Tidsskrift (see Broch, 1954)
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  Specimen from Newfoundland acquired by Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History in 1979 from the Memorial University of Newfoundland (YPM IZ 017964). Measurements taken from this specimen were used in the preparation of the life-sized giant squid model that currently hangs above the main entrance of the Peabody museum.
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  #240 (?/2/1980)
  Michael J. Sweeney (left) and Clyde F. E. Roper (center) with the giant squid that washed ashore on Plum Island, Massachusetts, in early February 1980, as it was being prepared for display at the National Museum of Natural History in 1983.
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  #240 (?/2/1980)
  The Plum Island specimen as it appeared when exhibited at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
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  #240 (?/2/1980)
  Since 2009, the Plum Island specimen has been on loan to the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, where it is on display in the Cold Water Quest Gallery
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  #254 (10/11/1981)
  Giant squid during dissection at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. This specimen was recovered in Bonavista North, Newfoundland.
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  #260 (?/9/1982)
  Giant squid at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands
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  #342 (?/8/1994)
  Specimen exhibited at Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, Japan, measuring 6.37 m in total length including its intact tentacles
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  #370 (24/12/1996)
  Specimen on display at the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan
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  #371 (16/7/1997)
  Specimen from the North Sea on display at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm
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  #380 (?/?/1998)
  First known specimen from the Mediterranean Sea, on display at the Museo Alborania in Málaga, Spain. Preserved in formaldehyde, it is an immature female with a mantle length of around 1.25 m.
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  #380 (?/?/1998)
  An overview of the entire giant squid exhibit at Museo Alborania, as it appeared in 2016
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  (?/?/1999)
  Giant squid caught in early 1999 and dissected on 20–21 February of that year at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand, during "In Search of Giant Squid", the third and last of the Smithsonian-backed giant squid expeditions
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  (?/?/1999)
  Teuthologist Clyde Roper lying alongside the large specimen of almost 2 m (6.6 ft) mantle length
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  (?/?/1999)
  A dozen people attempting to move the carcass, which weighed in excess of 200 kg (440 lb)
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  (?/?/1999)
  A view into the specimen's mantle cavity. The paired, grey ctenidia (gills) are clearly visible.
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  (?/?/1999)
  Clyde Roper with one of the giant squid's enormous eyes
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  (?/?/1999)
  Roper holding the giant squid's stomach
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  (?/?/1999)
  The two-part beak following extraction from the surrounding musculature
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  (?/?/1999)
  Roper and Steve O'Shea positioning the specimen in a stainless steel tank filled with 10% formalin solution
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  A small (1 m ML; 30 kg) but fully mature male being examined by Steve O'Shea on 28 February 1999, during the "In Search of Giant Squid" expedition
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  #396 (15/3/1999)
  Giant squid nicknamed "Molly the Mollusk", preserved in a tank at Mote Aquarium in Sarasota, Florida
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  #414 (27/1/2000)
  The world's first plastinated giant squid, nicknamed "Wheke", displayed at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris
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  #414 (27/1/2000)
  Oral view of the same specimen, showing the brachial crown and beak
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  Specimen on display at the Melbourne Museum
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  Giant squid head recovered from a sperm whale stomach, at the London Natural History Museum's Darwin Centre
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  Giant squid dissection performed by Clyde Roper (top left) and scientists from NOAA and the Delaware Museum of Natural History
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  Specimen identified as Architeuthis sanctipauli, at the National Museum of Natural Science in Taichung, Taiwan
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  Preserved giant squid eye; together with that of the colossal squid it is the largest of any living animal
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  Giant squid beak with associated buccal musculature

Originating from New Zealand, this giant squid specimen (#396) measures 27 feet (8.2 m) in total length and is preserved at Mote Aquarium in Sarasota, Florida. Nicknamed "Molly the Mollusk", it is one of only a handful of giant squid specimens on public display in the United States.

For images of later specimens, see List of giant squid specimens and sightings (21st century) § Specimen images.

Notes and references

Full citations

For a complete list of references, see List of giant squid specimens and sightings § Full citations.

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