In the icy depths beneath Antarctica’s frozen waters, researchers have captured an astonishing sight: a blood-red squid never before filmed in its natural habitat. On December 25, 2024, scientists ...

Sea creatures have adapted to help them thrive in extreme environments. Unusual features allow them to live thousands of feet below the surface. Underwater robots give researchers a glimpse at some of ...

Scientists previously captured rare footage of a giant squid. Now, they've filmed another huge squid species — the colossal squid. The first specimens of the colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni ...

Scientists have filmed a never-before-seen species of deep-sea squid burying itself upside down in the seafloor — a behavior never documented in cephalopods. They captured the bizarre scene while ...

Perhaps it was hiding from predators. Or trying to catch food. Then again, maybe it just wanted to be left alone. By Elizabeth Preston Like a scarf out of a magician’s sleeve, the squid appeared.

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 ...