cephalopod

  • 30-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Ancient Vampire Squid

    30-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Ancient Vampire Squid

    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, which says merely in its choice of habitat — the pitch-black, oxygen-starved layer of the ocean — that it would prefer to be left…