Octopus, squid, and cuttlefish aid marine food webs and carbon storage, revealing how climate change reshapes oceans and ...

People have different tastes. It turns out that octopuses, squid and cuttlefish do too. These soft-bodied cephalopods have proteins on suckers along their tentacles that allow them to “taste” by ...

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 ...

We share this branch with a number of other social animals: hoofed herd animals like sheep and goats; pack carnivores, like ...

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.

Cuttlefish, along with other cephalopods like octopus and squid, are masters of disguise, changing their skin color and texture to blend in with their underwater surroundings. Now, in a study ...

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 ...