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

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the "vampire squid from hell," revealing it bridges the evolutionary gap between ...

The vampire squid is a creature straight out of a gothic horror film. It lurks in the deep-sea abyss, cloaked in dark, webbed arms, its massive eyes glowing red or blue. The dramatic scientific name — ...

The deep sea often challenges our ideas about how life evolves. Some creatures carry stories that stretch across unimaginable time. The vampire squid sits among these quiet survivors. Its soft body ...

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 ...

Paleontologists have identified the earliest known ancestor of the octopus and vampire squid – and named the newly discovered species after President Joe Biden. The more than 300-million-year-old ...

A set of fossils found in Bacon Cove, N.L. — and now housed permanently in the province's natural history collection — could rewrite the evolutionary history of deep-sea creatures like squid and ...

Cephalopods—the class of animals that comprises octopuses and squids—are ubiquitous throughout the ocean, including in the ...

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