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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An elusive deep-sea squid species was caught on camera for the first time ever in a major breakthrough. National Geographic, on ...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the elusive "vampire squid from hell" for the first time, providing insights into the origin of cephalopods like octopuses. It's the largest cephalopod genome ...

Cephalopod evolution has long had a missing chapter in its story: how did squid-like ancestors give rise to today's octopuses? The answer, it turns out, was floating in the deep sea all along. With ...

For the first time ever, a colossal squid has been captured on camera in the deep sea, offering researchers a rare look at one of the ocean’s most elusive giants. The footage was captured last month ...

An expedition in the Southern Ocean captured video of a rare species of deep-sea cephalopod. Until now, it had been found only in fishing nets and in the bellies of seabirds. By Alexa Robles-Gil The ...

The deep sea remains Earth’s final frontier — a vast, alien realm where sunlight never penetrates and the pressure could crush a human in milliseconds. Yet in this seemingly inhospitable void, some of ...