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'Vampire Squid From Hell' Reveals The Ancient Origins of Octopuses


The elusive 'vampire squid from hell' has just yielded the largest cephalopod genome ever sequenced, a monster clocking in at more than 11 billion base pairs – more than twice as large as the biggest squid genomes.

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