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#18 (30/11/1861)
The Alecton attempts to capture a giant squid on 30 November 1861
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#18 (30/11/1861)
Reproduction of the original watercolour by officers of the Alecton
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#18 (30/11/1861)
Another depiction of the Alecton encounter
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#28 (26/10/1873)
The 19-foot (5.8 m) tentacle of the first Architeuthis ever examined on land, hacked off a living animal on 26 October 1873
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#29 (25/11?/1873)
Giant squid from Logy Bay, Newfoundland in Reverend Moses Harvey's bathtub, November or December 1873
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#29 (25/11?/1873)
A.E. Verrill's reconstruction of "Architeuthis Harveyi", the Logy Bay giant squid
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#33 (2/11/1874)
The "calmar gigantesque" that washed ashore on Île Saint-Paul on 2 November 1874
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#34 (?/12/1874)
Drawing by A.E. Verrill, from specimen obtained at Fortune Bay, Newfoundland, in December 1874
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#43 (24/9/1877)
The "nearly perfect specimen" that was beached alive in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, on 24 September 1877
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#43 (24/9/1877)
Another depiction of the Trinity Bay specimen, showing the animal after it had died
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#43 (24/9/1877)
J. H. Emerton's drawing of the Trinity Bay giant squid
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#67 (18/7/1895)
Mantle measuring 46 cm originally recovered from sperm whale vomit, from a 1900 work by Louis Joubin. This specimen is the holotype of Dubioteuthis physeteris.
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#68 (10/4/1896) and #69 (27/9/1896)
The two largest Norwegian giant squid specimens, measuring 10 and 12 m in total length, were both found washed ashore at Kyrksæterøra in 1896.
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#68 (10/4/1896) or #69 (27/9/1896)
One of the two giant specimens from Kyrksæterøra, stretched out for measurement
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#92 (?/2/1920)?
Giant squid that "came ashore on the Scottish west coast"; possibly the specimen reported from February 1920
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#101 (4/3/1928)
Specimen found washed ashore in Ranheim, Norway, measuring around 7.9 m in total length
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#136 (2/10/1954)
Specimen measuring 9.24 m in total length found in Trondheimsfjord, Norway
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#225 (?/2/1980)
Specimen that washed ashore on Plum Island, Massachusetts, in early February 1980, exhibited at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
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#225 (?/2/1980)
Michael J. Sweeney (left), Clyde Roper (center) and forklift operator Charles Beggs with a giant squid specimen being prepared for display at the National Museum of Natural History in 1983
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Giant squid during dissection at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. This specimen was recovered in Bonavista North, Newfoundland, sometime in the 1980s.
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(20/2/1999)
Giant squid at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand
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(27/1/2000)
The world's first plastinated giant squid, displayed at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris
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(3/1/2002)
Giant squid caught around 160 km off the Hebrides, preserved at the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth, England
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(?/7/2005)
Large female caught off northern Spain, displayed at the Sant Ocean Hall of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
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(?/?/2005)
Giant squid measuring 7 m encased in ice at the Melbourne Aquarium
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Giant squid preserved in the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid
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Specimen on display at the Melbourne Museum
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Giant squid at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands
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Several giant squid specimens from the NTNU Museum of Natural History and Archaeology in Trondheim, Norway. The oldest specimen (#69), found in 1896, is also the largest at 12 m in total length.
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Giant squid preserved in a tank
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Specimen exhibited at Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, Japan
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Preserved giant squid at Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta
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