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Environment Apr 23, 2024

From the coast to the deep sea, changing oxygen levels affect marine life in different ways

Earth's atmosphere maintains a constant level of oxygen, whether it is a wintry, rainy day or hot summer. Across the ocean, oxygen concentrations vary enormously between different places and over time. Sometimes oxygen levels ...

Evolution Oct 18, 2023

New insights into the genetics of the common octopus: Genome at the chromosome level decoded

Octopuses are fascinating animals—and serve as important model organisms in neuroscience, cognition research and developmental biology.

Polymers Sep 8, 2023

How to make color-changing 'Transformers' with polymers

Shape and color changing are key survival traits for many animals. Chameleons can change their body to hide from predators, to reflect their moods, or even to defend their territory, while some soft-bodied animal-like octopuses, ...

Paleontology & Fossils Aug 3, 2023

Jurassic era fish fossil found to have died from eating an overly large ammonite

A pair of paleontologists at Universität Hohenheim's Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart has found a fossilized Jurassic-era fish that appears to have died after swallowing an overly large ammonite. Samuel Cooper ...

Plants & Animals Jun 28, 2023

High-resolution cameras with AI show cuttlefish camouflage is more complex than previously thought

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.

Plants & Animals Jun 20, 2023

Cuttlefish brain atlas first of its kind

Anything with three hearts, blue blood and skin that can change colors like a display in Times Square is likely to turn heads. Meet Sepia bandensis, known more descriptively as the camouflaging dwarf cuttlefish.

Biotechnology Jun 20, 2023

See-through squid lets scientists study cephalopod nervous system

A team at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) has successfully engineered an albino strain of the hummingbird bobtail squid, Euprymna berryi. This advance, reported in Current Biology, has created a nearly transparent ...

Plants & Animals Jun 8, 2023

When water temperatures change, the molecular motors of cephalopods do too

Cephalopods are a large family of marine animals that includes octopuses, cuttlefish and squid. They live in every ocean, from warm, shallow tropical waters to near-freezing, abyssal depths. More remarkably, report two scientists ...

Plants & Animals Jun 8, 2023

Study: Octopuses use RNA editing to rapidly respond to temperature changes by altering protein function

Each cell comes with a finite set of instructions encoded in its DNA. Life, however, is unpredictable, and when circumstances change, animals need flexibility to acclimate. New research led by Joshua Rosenthal of the Marine ...

Ecology Mar 30, 2023

Whether you're a snorkeler or CEO, you can help save our vital kelp forests

What if we told you the world has forests harboring creatures with three hearts and where the canopy can grow by a foot a day? What if we told you it was silently disappearing? What if we told you we now have the chance to ...

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