We wish could ask cephalopod scientists questions for eight days straight, but the next best thing is an hour-long reddit AMA. From SailboatAB: When I read about cephalopod intelligence, it’s always ...

Cephalopods, including octopuses, cuttlefish and squid, possess some of the most elaborate nervous systems and behavioural repertoires among invertebrates. Their large central brain, organised into ...

They may be tasty when you fry them up, but evidence is mounting that cephalopods like octopuses and squid possess consciousness. Over at the Cephalove blog, neuroscience student Mike Lisieski ...

A cute observation in the cephalopods' behavior indicates they also react to sound waves, a notion that will soon be tested with a machine learning approach. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers just ...

Researchers have sequenced and annotated the first cephalopod genome, the California two-spot octopus. They found widespread rearrangements of genes and a dramatic expansion of a family of genes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An eye and arms of an octopus. The small dots visible around the eye are the chromatophores. The findings are the first to ...

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.

Good things come to those who wait—especially for the cuttlefish hanging out with Alexandra Schnell, a comparative psychologist at the University of Cambridge in England. For the past decade, Schnell ...

At the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., there's a room filled with burbling aquariums. A lot of them have lids weighed down with big rocks. "Octopuses are notorious for being able to ...

Bret Grasse lovingly calls the Cephalopod Operations division at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts the “cephalopod empire.” The lab houses roughly 2,000 to 3,000 ...