This behavior indicates that cuttlefish can anticipate future rewards and adjust their decisions accordingly. The ability to delay gratification is considered a sign of higher intelligence, suggesting ...

Nature is full of masters of disguise. From the chameleon to arctic hare, natural camouflage is a common yet powerful way to ...

How can the soft bodies of coleoid cephalopods so aptly hide in their environment? Why must they? What cells and specialized organs make such crypsis possible for one of the older evolutionary ...

Theodora Mautz is a second-year PhD student studying marine biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

Learn more about the mating of blue-lined octopuses — a treacherous ordeal involving sex, cannibalism, and sedation.

Ammonites were shelled cephalopods that died out about 66 million years ago. Fossils of them are found all around the world, sometimes in very large concentrations. The often tightly wound shells of ...

The many chambers of their shells likely helped these cephalopods glide through the planet’s warm, shallow seas. A thin, tubelike structure called a siphuncle pumped air through the interior ...

The minister highlighted the quality, taste and nutritional properties of cephalopods as essential components of the Mediterranean and Asian diets On Tuesday Hermida will be opening the three-day ...

Scientists have captured footage of the sea creatures using four distinct color-shifting techniques to trick their prey ...

The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium on Sanibel is continuing with its seasonal Lecture Series at the museum, ...

A seafood sampling survey has revealed some non-compliances but an overall low risk to public health. In England and Wales, ...