New DNA findings may explain how octopuses evolved complex brains
Octopus, squid and cuttlefish share stable large-scale DNA organization but show much more variable chromatin loops.Ancient chromosome reshuffling…
Scientists Discover Ancient Genetic Shake-Up That May Explain the Extraordinary Intelligence of Octopuses
New genetic research may reveal the secret to how cephalopods, including octopuses, developed some of the most complex…
Scientists filmed this rare Arctic squid in the wild for the first time, guarding its eggs in sub-zero water inside the world’s largest national park
Credit: Maroni, P.J., Cornet, J., Skorikova, Y. et al./Springer Nature In the icy waters of Northeast Greenland, scientists…
It’s The Size Of A Golf Ball
This unassuming octopus pairs bacterial chemistry with evolutionary efficiency to deliver one of the most powerful defenses in…
Colossal Octopus Fossils Suggest a 60-Foot “Kraken” Once Ruled the Oceans
Giant 19-meter-long octopuses resembling the mythical kraken may have rivaled the apex predators of the Late Cretaceous oceans,…
The One Arm an Octopus Will Never Risk in a Fight—Its Sex Arm
Webfoot octopus (Amphioctopus fangsiao) male with its mating arm curled up (upper left). Credit: Keijiro Haruki For an…
Octopus arm flexibility facilitates complex behaviors in diverse natural environments
Arm actions Twelve arm actions were identified from 15 behaviors with a total of 3,907 actions recorded from…