It has blood red skin, webbed tentacles, and strange spines that make it look like something out of a nightmare. Meet the ...

Vampire movies have trained us to expect the worst out of any creature that has "vampire" in the name. We only have ourselves to blame for that, as the vampires from the movies don't exist in real ...

Thousands of meters below the surface, ghost-like creatures drift through a world of complete darkness. Transparent octopuses, vampire squid and glowing squid look like they came straight out of a ...

This Smithsonian Snapshot celebrates the Halloween season with this 1889 scientific illustration of a vampire squid from Smithsonian Libraries. Its jet-black skin, the caped appearance of the webbing ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Paleontologists have revealed a previously unknown vampire squid ...

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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 ...

A trio of paleontologists in Germany has found a fossilized vampire squid that they dated to 183 million years ago. In their paper published in the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, Robert Weis, Ben ...

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 ...

In a study now published in iScience, researchers from the University of Vienna (Austria), National Institute of Technology - Wakayama College (NITW; Japan), and Shimane University (Japan) present the ...