{"id":8974,"date":"2025-12-06T05:04:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/friday-squid-blogging-vampire-squid-genome-html\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T05:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:04:23","slug":"friday-squid-blogging-vampire-squid-genome-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/friday-squid-blogging-vampire-squid-genome-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Squid Blogging: Vampire Squid Genome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Friday Squid Blogging: Vampire Squid Genome<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The vampire squid (<i>Vampyroteuthis infernalis<\/i>) has the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/vampire-squid-from-hell-reveals-the-ancient-origins-of-octopuses\">largest cephalopod genome<\/a> ever sequenced: more than 11 billion base pairs. That\u2019s more than twice as large as the biggest squid genomes.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s technically not a squid: \u201cThe vampire squid is a fascinating twig tenaciously hanging onto the cephalopod family tree. It\u2019s neither a squid nor an octopus (nor a vampire), but rather the last, lone remnant of an ancient lineage whose other members have long since vanished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven\u2019t covered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2024\/06\/new-blog-moderation-policy.html\">Blog moderation policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/12\/friday-squid-blogging-vampire-squid-genome.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday Squid Blogging: Vampire Squid Genome The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) has the largest cephalopod genome ever sequenced: more than 11 billion base pairs. That\u2019s more than twice as large as the biggest squid genomes. It\u2019s technically not a squid: \u201cThe vampire squid is a fascinating twig tenaciously hanging onto the cephalopod family tree. It\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,91,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-8974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-schneier","category-squid","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}