While modern octopuses have DNA that consistently gets reshuffled, resulting in some chromosomal mixing, the researchers found that the vampire squid's genome kept much of its ancestral, squid-like ...

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

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

The elusive 'vampire squid from hell' has just yielded the largest cephalopod genome ever sequenced, a monster clocking in at ...

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

Deep beneath the ocean’s surface, where sunlight never reaches, a creature older than dinosaurs has quietly preserved secrets ...

A mysterious deep-sea creature has just helped scientists solve a long-standing evolutionary puzzle. The vampire squid—an ...

With its unusual combination of features, the deep sea creature helps explain how other modern species emerged from a common ...

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 ...

This Smithsonian Snapshot celebrates the Halloween season with this 1889 scientific illustration of a vampire squid from Smithsonian Libraries. Its jet-black skin, the caped appearance of the webbing ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Vampire Squid Illustration, 1889 This Smithsonian Snapshot celebrates the Halloween season with this 1889 scientific illustration of a vampire ...