A giant sea creature, possibly with tusks, washed up on a beach in Indonesia last week, freaking out people on the island of Seram and launching a global guessing game to determine what, exactly ...

According to Donaldson, the creature was a giant squid, and measured nearly 13 feet. Giant squid are the second-largest mollusc, behind only the colossal squid, and can grow to lengths of up to 43 ...

The 4.5 metre (14 foot, 9 inch) long cephalopod washed up on the south coast of Wellington, New Zealand on Sunday morning, its size easily eclipsing the mere mortals that dare to lie beside it.

Grosse estimated the squid was about 13 feet long and weighed about 660 pounds, which is actually on the smaller side. Female giant squids can measure 60 feet across, according to Live Science.

A week earlier another giant squid washed up on a beach in Japan. The squid, about three metres long, was found alive at Ugu beach in Obama of Fukui Prefecture, the Independent reported.

A giant squid, whose oversized eyes and gargantuan blob of a body make it look more mythical than real beast, washed ashore Oct. 1 at La Arena beach in the Spanish community of Cantabria.

A nearly 700-pound, fully intact giant squid washed up on a beach in South Africa earlier this month – a rare sighting for an animal that was first captured on video in its natural habitat only ...