The vampire squid genome shows it kept ancient features shared with squids, while octopuses gained major chromosomal changes.

National Institute of Technology—Wakayama College (NITW; Japan), and Shimane University (Japan) present the largest ...

Learn more about the genetics of the vampire squid — a strange species whose genome suggests that modern octopuses, squids, ...

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

Cephalopods such as octopus and squid evolutionarily diverged from mollusks like slugs and snails. These animals have elaborate compact nervous systems located within specialized arm appendages, which ...

Research produced by the Wardill Lab at the University of Minnesota has scientifically advancing results on how cephalopods hunt and use vision, which has broader impacts for ocean health and marine ...

Squids, octopuses, cuttlefishes, and other humble members of the cephalopod class of mollusks are many-armed (or tentacled) wizards. They change colors—despite being unable to see color themselves—to ...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. – 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 ...

Along their eight arms, octopuses have highly sensitive suckers that allow methodical explorations of the seafloor as they search for nourishment in a "taste by touch" approach. Squids, on the other ...

A rare Indian octopus squid, Taningia silasii, has been discovered in the Arabian Sea, marking a significant find for ...