While modern octopuses have DNA that consistently gets reshuffled, resulting in some chromosomal mixing, the researchers found that the vampire squid's genome kept much of its ancestral, squid-like ...

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Perhaps it was hiding from predators. Or trying to catch food. Then again, maybe it just wanted to be left alone.

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An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies to date, and peer-reviewed results have ...

For thousands of years, sailors told stories of the Kraken—a massive, many-armed sea monster said to drag entire ships ...

This week, researchers reported that weight and health markers may rebound when patients stop using some of the new hormonal gastric inhibitory polypeptide drugs. A prototype device can restore lost ...

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 ...

A process to extract metals from their ore with hydrogen could make deep-sea mining for valuable materials more sustainable than mining on land, a new study claims. Swathes of the ocean floor are ...

Scientists from the ICAR–Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) have discovered a new species of deep-sea squid from the Arabian Sea. This marks the second confirmed species of the ...