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

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

Though the footage was genuine, it featured a deep-sea cephalopod species known as the big-eyed jellyhead — not a vampire squid. Additionally, the video shared on social media was cropped and played ...

Vampire movies have trained us to expect the worst out of any creature that has "vampire" in the name. We only have ourselves to blame for that, as the vampires from the movies don't exist in real ...

Researchers from the University of Vienna (Austria), National Institute of Technology—Wakayama College (NITW; Japan), and Shimane University (Japan) present the largest cephalopod genome sequenced to ...

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