We named him Squirt – not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked.

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the \"vampire squid from hell,\" revealing it bridges the evolutionary gap between ...

INVZMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "Largely shell-less relatives of clams and snails, the marine mollusks in the class Cephalopoda--Greek for head-foot --are ...

In a study now published in iScience, researchers from the University of Vienna (Austria), National Institute of Technology - Wakayama College (NITW; Japan), and Shimane University (Japan) present the ...

DNA of ‘vampire squid from hell’ helps explain how octopuses evolved - With its unusual combination of features, the deep sea ...

We named him Squirt – not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked.

Source: Princeton University Press/ Used with permission. Octopuses and other cephalopods are amazing, strange, sentient beings. They have very active social lives and brains—some say octopuses have ...

Put on your party hat and wet suit because it is Cephalopod Week, Science Friday’s annual celebration of all things, octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish. To kick things off, we’re bringing you an ode to ...

Researchers presented the cuttlefish with two options: a case with some shrimp or a case with more shrimp. Each case contained between one and five shrimp, and the cuttlefish always picked the case ...

Deep beneath the ocean’s surface, where sunlight never reaches, a creature older than dinosaurs has quietly preserved secrets of evolution. The vampire squid, a mysterious denizen of the deep, has ...