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, ...

The vampire squid genome shows it kept ancient features shared with squids, while octopuses gained major chromosomal changes.

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

CMFRI scientists have discovered Taningia silasii, a new deep-sea squid from the Arabian Sea—only the second known species of the rare genus Taningia.

Cephalopods such as octopus and squid evolutionarily diverged from mollusks like slugs and snails. These animals have elaborate compact nervous systems located within specialized arm appendages, which ...

Researchers from Vienna and Japan sequenced the largest cephalopod genome. They analysed the genome of the vampire squid from ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Researchers have identified what they consider the oldest octopus ancestor – it lived more than 320 million years ago – and they named it after President Joe Biden. The fossilized remains of the ...

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