Deep beneath the ocean’s surface, where sunlight never reaches, a creature older than dinosaurs has quietly preserved secrets of evolution. The vampire squid, a mysterious denizen of the deep, has ...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the elusive “vampire squid from hell” for the first time, providing insights into the origin of cephalopods like octopuses. It’s the largest cephalopod genome ...

While modern octopuses have DNA that consistently gets reshuffled, resulting in some chromosomal mixing, the researchers ...

In a study now published in iScience, researchers from the University of Vienna (Austria), National Institute of Technology - Wakayama College (NITW; Japan), and Shimane University (Japan) present the ...

Despite its ominous name and appearance, the vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) is a gentle deep-sea dweller that feeds on marine snow organic debris drifting from upper ocean layers. Adapted ...