The newfound vampyromorph species was equipped with defensive features not previously seen in the fossil record — and it's related to modern-day vampire squid.
A bullet-shaped creature with luminous organs, eight arms and sucker attachments like a vampire squid haunted Earth's oceans 165 million years ago, a new study has found.
The researchers named the 3.2-inch-long creature Vampyrofugiens atramentum."Vampyrofugiens" combines the original Serbian word for vampire,"vampir," with the Latin for fleeing,"fugiens" — making this animal the fleeing vampire. V. atramentum came from the La Voulte-sur-Rhône Lagerstätte fossil site in southwest France, where the rapid replacement of soft tissues with iron-rich minerals preserves Jurassic coleoids in 3D.
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