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

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

DNA of ‘vampire squid from hell’ helps explain how octopuses evolved - With its unusual combination of features, the deep sea ...

What appeared to be tentacles washed up on an Aberdeenshire beach are the remains of a deep-sea creature called a seven-arm ...

The elusive 'vampire squid from hell' has just yielded the largest cephalopod genome ever sequenced, a monster clocking in at more than 11 billion base pairs – more than twice as large as the biggest ...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. – Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish – even to scientists who study them – are wonderfully weird creatures. Known as the soft-bodied or coleoid cephalopods, they have the largest nervous ...

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

Indian scientists discover rare deep-sea octopus squid in Arabian Sea, expanding marine biodiversity knowledge.

Research has traced the evolutionary adaptations of octopus and squid sensing capabilities. The researchers describe for the first time the structure of an octopus chemotactile receptor, which octopus ...

Cephalopods are bizarre creatures, but these Lovecraftian life-forms didn’t get their genes from Cthluhu, who supposedly lies dead and dreaming in the watery depths of R’lyeh. You could argue that the ...

Vietnam’s squid and octopus exports are likely to increase by 10-15% in the fourth quarter of 2025 compared with the third ...