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Some 183 million years ago, an eight-armed creature drifted through the shallow waters off of an island that would now be in the heart of Europe. The sea creature was hunting for prey. But as it ...

The high seas of the dinosaur era were teeming with a plethora of squids, a new study has found. Using a new technique for analyzing fossils locked away in chunks of rock, paleontologists in Japan and ...

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 ...

The newfound vampyromorph species was equipped with defensive features not previously seen in the fossil record — and it's related to modern-day vampire squid. When you purchase through links on our ...

(CN) — Using 3D imaging of rocks, a research team from Hokkaido University in Japan found evidence that ancient squids once dominated the oceans. Cephalopods are model animals for long-term evolution, ...

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 ...