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 ...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the elusive “vampire squid from hell” for the first time, providing insights into the origin of cephalopods like octopuses. It’s the largest cephalopod genome ...

A 300-million-year-old fossil that earned a Guiness World Record in 2015 as the world’s oldest octopus, has now been reclassified after new research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods—such as octopuses and squid—have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them ...

Coleoid cephalopods, which include squids, octopuses and cuttlefish, represent a dynamic and diverse group whose palaeontological record provides critical insights into evolution and adaptation in ...

Nautiloids—a lineage of ancient, externally-shelled cephalopods that diverged from their octopus and squid relatives over 400 million years ago—once dominated our oceans. Today, this living fossil is ...