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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Despite its ominous name and appearance, the vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) is a gentle deep-sea dweller that feeds on marine snow organic debris drifting from upper ocean layers. Adapted ...