The Jurassic cephalopod Vampyronassa rhodanica, thought to be the oldest known ancestor of the modern-day vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis), was likely an active hunter—a mode of life that is ...

Vampire by name, vampire by nature. Scientists have discovered that the oldest known ancestor of the vampire squid had extra-strong suckers and hair-like strands known as 'cirri' on its arms that it ...

Watch as baby octopuses and squid hatch from their eggs and immediately begin hunting and camouflaging themselves. - [David] This is one of the few places you can see octopuses hatch from the egg.

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 ...