A rarely seen deep-sea creature has just been captured on film—and what the camera revealed left researchers speechless.

Vampyroteuthis infernalis, literally "vampire squid from hell," is a mysterious deep-sea species. Research published in September 2012 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B reveals ...

Despite their eerie name and otherworldly appearance, vampire squids aren't the blood-sucking monsters they sound like. Dive into the deep sea mystery and uncover the truth about one of the ocean ...

Bizarre creatures like vampire squid and blobfish make their home in the dark, cold, depths of the deep sea, but most of this watery realm remains a complete mystery. That's because humans have seen ...

The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) isn't actually a squid. And though its scientific name means "vampire squid from hell," it isn't actually a vampire either. Although, in the deep ocean ...

However, only squids, cuttlefish, bobtail squids and other members of Decapodiformes have tentacles, and only vampire squid sport stringy appendages called filaments, according to a paper ...