Marine Discoveries

New species have been discovered in the deep sea around the Canary Islands. (News source.)

A new ghostshark has been described from off southern California / Baja. (Eurekalert.)

Scientists netted a 20-foot giant squid from the Gulf of Mexico. (News source.)

A large forest of a rare black coral was discovered in the waters off Italy. (News source.)

Kraken Papers

I've just added a couple of downloadable papers (from 1813 and 1814) on early accounts of giant squid to the BioFortean Review PDF Archive.

Giant Squids

Here's an article on searching for the largest giant squids...