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In the deep ocean, thousands of feet below the surface, lives a mysterious creature with a name befitting Halloween—the vampire squid. The scientific name of this species, Vampyroteuthis infernalis, ...

When we think of vampires we often think of Dracula, Anne Rice’s famous novels, or maybe even tiny blood-sucking bats. We probably aren’t thinking of cephalopods. While it’s true that vampire squid ...

A 183-million-year-old fossil found in Luxembourg turned out to be a new species of deep-sea vampire squid, researchers said in a new study. Photo by Fuchs, D., Weis, R. & Thuy, B. from the Swiss ...

Deep squid Deep sea vampire squid live long and breed repeatedly like fish, in stark contrast to all other known squid species that die after only a single breeding season. The discovery suggests that ...

They're not the immortal undead, but vampire squids might just live unusually long lives for cephalopods. In a study published April 20 in Current Biology, researchers report that the deep-sea squids ...

Scientists discover what appears to be the second known living species of vampire squid swimming in deep water off Hainan island, China. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...