Over evolutionary time, segments of cephalopod DNA were rearranged over and over into something highly adaptable and highly ...

Researchers in South Korea installed artificial spawning structures that attracted golden cuttlefish and bigfin reef squid, ...

A comparative developmental study links cephalopod sucker formation to the repurposing of Ets1, while leaving the gene’s ...

Cephalopods, like the octopus, have specialized arms and suckers, but how these structures evolved from the simple bodies of their mollusk ancestors remains a mystery. Researchers from the University ...

The extraordinary intelligence of octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish may be linked to more than just their genes.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neuroscientists are studying octopuses and other cephalopods because of their intelligence and large brains. Three hearts; blue ...

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 system of any ...

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.

Learn more about the genetics of the vampire squid — a strange species whose genome suggests that modern octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish evolved from a squid-like ancient ancestor. According to a ...

Most people have encountered squid through their local seafood menu or field trip to an aquarium. Unlike octopuses, which are named for their eight arms, squid have 10 individual appendages. They most ...