The vampire squid is a creature straight out of a gothic horror film. It lurks in the deep-sea abyss, cloaked in dark, webbed ...

When scientists sequenced the genome of this elusive deep-sea creature, they found clues about how squids and octopuses ...

Its Latin name translates as “the vampire squid from hell.” And while crimson skin and glowing eyes support its title, deep sea ecologists like Bruce Robison of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research ...

DNA of ‘vampire squid from hell’ helps explain how octopuses evolved - With its unusual combination of features, the deep sea creature helps explain how other modern species emerged from a common ance ...

National Institute of Technology—Wakayama College (NITW; Japan), and Shimane University (Japan) present the largest ...

A team of paleontologists in Prague found a mysterious remnant that reaches far back in time, and deep into the ocean: a 30-million-year-old fossil of the notorious vampire squid. And while the living ...

The newfound vampyromorph species was equipped with defensive features not previously seen in the fossil record — and it's related to modern-day vampire squid. When you purchase through links on our ...

Learn more about the genetics of the vampire squid — a strange species whose genome suggests that modern octopuses, squids, ...