Despite their eerie name and otherworldly appearance, vampire squids aren't the blood-sucking monsters they sound like. Dive ...

One such specimen MBARI scientists spotted was the vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis). Animals that live in the twilight zone have specialized adaptations for survival deep below the surface of ...

S cientists in China have identified a potentially new species of vampire squid, marking only the second known species of this deep-sea creature. This new species, named Vampyroteuthis ...

Yesterday Occupy Wall Street went “squidding” at Goldman Sachs, marking at least the 347,001st time that Matt Taibbi’s 2009 description of the investment bank as “a great vampire squid ...

The ocean depths are home to a phantasmagoria of bizarre creatures, ranging from the footballfish to the "vampire squid from hell." Living in the dark at crushing depths, the animals below are ...