You can't always judge a book by its cover. That is a lesson scientists have recently learned about the nectocaridid - a 500-million-year-old marine creature that looked like a squid but turned out to ...

Ancient oceans were likely dominated by predatory squid, a new fossil-hunting technique suggested. Soft-bodied creatures like squid leave few fossils, unlike their shelled relatives ammonites and ...

Remarkable fossils found in North Greenland have helped researchers solve a 500-million-year-old puzzle surrounding squid-like ancestors. It was previously thought ancient organisms called ...

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 ...

(CN) — Using 3D imaging of rocks, a research team from Hokkaido University in Japan found evidence that ancient squids once dominated the oceans. Cephalopods are model animals for long-term evolution, ...