Cephalopods such as octopus and squid evolutionarily diverged from mollusks like slugs and snails. These animals have elaborate compact nervous systems located within specialized arm appendages, which ...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. – Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish – even to scientists who study them – are wonderfully weird creatures. Known as the soft-bodied or coleoid cephalopods, they have the largest nervous ...

Research produced by the Wardill Lab at the University of Minnesota has scientifically advancing results on how cephalopods hunt and use vision, which has broader impacts for ocean health and marine ...

Squids, octopuses, cuttlefishes, and other humble members of the cephalopod class of mollusks are many-armed (or tentacled) wizards. They change colors—despite being unable to see color themselves—to ...

Along their eight arms, octopuses have highly sensitive suckers that allow methodical explorations of the seafloor as they search for nourishment in a "taste by touch" approach. Squids, on the other ...

In a new study, researchers used a new live-imaging technique to watch neurons being created in squid embryos almost in real-time. They were then able to track those cells through the development of ...

Researchers have identified what they consider the oldest octopus ancestor – it lived more than 320 million years ago – and they named it after President Joe Biden. The fossilized remains of the ...

Octopuses tend to keep secrets, but we've just learnt how they achieve their extraordinary dexterity. The fine control these almost-alien animals have over each of their eight arms is at least ...

Cephalopods like octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish have the mesmerizing ability to change the color of their skin to ...

One morning, biologist Leah Bushin checked on a flask of bacteria and noticed something unusual: the liquid had turned a deep ...