This week, the photo collective Everyday Africa, a project focussing on images of daily life in Africa, will be posting to our Instagram feed. Nine photographers across the continent, from Mali to Kenya, are contributing. Follow us @ newyorkermag to see their photos:http://instagram.com/newyorkermag

In this photo: Children play in the ocean in Grand-Bassam, a popular beach community outside of Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Photograph by the Everday Africa founder Peter DiCampo.

Read David Grann’s 2004 piece on the competitive search for the sea’s most elusive creature, the giant squid: http://nyr.kr/3cCqqo

(Video via The Guardian.)

An Edward Koren cartoon from 1966.