Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Maddy has a degree in ...

Vampire squid, which sport a Count Dracula cloak-like dark web, turn out to be living fossils that feast on poo and other marine waste enveloped in globs of mucus. The scientific name for this unusual ...

A team of paleontologists in Prague found a mysterious remnant that reaches far back in time, and deep into the ocean: a 30-million-year-old fossil of the notorious vampire squid. And while the living ...

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 ...

A bizarre "vampire squid" has been pulled from the ocean and some scientists believe that the deep-sea specimen represents an entirely new species. The specimen in question was collected during a ...

In the deep ocean, thousands of feet below the surface, lives a mysterious creature with a name befitting Halloween—the vampire squid. The scientific name of this species, Vampyroteuthis infernalis, ...

The elusive vampire squid wears its red flesh like a voluminous cape. Billowing in the depths, the animal’s velvety exterior almost seems to enshroud some deeper truth of the phantasmal creature, ...

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 ...

Although it was discovered over a century ago, the so-called vampire squid remains one of the ocean's most mysterious creatures. It is known by many scientists as Vampyroteuthis infernalis, which ...

WHEN MATT TAIBBI, writing in Rolling Stone magazine in 2010, described Goldman Sachs, an American bank, as a “vampire squid”, he traduced an innocent animal. Vampire squid are not vampires. They ...

Though the footage was genuine, it featured a deep-sea cephalopod species known as the big-eyed jellyhead — not a vampire squid. Additionally, the video shared on social media was cropped and played ...

A certain Animal Crossing: New Horizons creature has unique features that are only visible in dark environments, making it much more interesting to observe during the night. Like many other creatures ...