Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. a vampire squid The elusive 'vampire squid from hell' has just yielded the largest cephalopod genome ever sequenced, a monster ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week in science: the genetic secrets of the 'vampire squid from hell'; a dinosaur superhighway; the longest known spinning ...

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 ...

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 ...