Plants & Animals
Dec 17, 2021
Octopus, crabs and lobsters feel pain: How we found out
Does a lobster feel pain when you pop it in a pot? The UK government asked us to find out.
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Biotechnology
Dec 8, 2021
Never-before-seen ammonite muscles revealed in 3D from Jurassic fossil
For the first time, researchers have revealed the soft tissues of a 165-million-year-old ammonite fossil using 3D imaging.
Plants & Animals
Oct 19, 2021
Monsters of the deep revealed for what they are
Grotesque little creatures with armor-like horns, misshapen torsos and some with spikes protruding from their sides are lurking in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. They appear in an array of oranges and blues, though several ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 30, 2021
Huge ancestors of squid once littered England's beaches
Vast ammonites, relatives of squid and octopus, up to 1.8 meters across once littered the East Sussex seas, according to new research.
Plants & Animals
Sep 23, 2021
The secret life of baby octopuses
Some of the most amazing creatures live in the deep blue sea. Cuttlefish, squids and octopuses, for example. These soft-bodied cephalopods have a strikingly sophisticated nervous system, camera-like eyes, three hearts, and ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 15, 2021
Foraging habits and tactics, diet and activity levels reveal how two octopus species coexist
There are more than 300 species of octopus living in diverse habitats that span coral reefs, seagrass beds, sand plains and polar ice regions where they feed on lower trophic levels. Most famous for having eight arms (octopus ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 7, 2021
Possible evidence of paternal care in bigfin reef squid
A trio of researchers, two from Universidade de Lisboa, the other from the American Museum of Natural History, has found possible evidence of paternal care in a cephalopod. In their paper published in the journal Ecology, ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 21, 2021
Examining the food chains controlling invasive marine species
A landmark scientific study involving marine biologists from Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Libya, Italy, Tunisia, the UK, the US and Malta documenting instances where native Mediterranean species have preyed upon two highly invasive ...
Evolution
Jul 16, 2021
3D printed replicas reveal swimming capabilities of ancient cephalopods
University of Utah paleontologists David Peterman and Kathleen Ritterbush know that it's one thing to use math and physics to understand how ancient marine creatures moved through the water. It's another thing to actually ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 7, 2021
Suckers for learning: why octopuses are so intelligent
Our last common ancestor with the octopus existed more than 500 million years ago. So why is it that they seem to show such peculiar similarities with humans, while at the same time appearing so alien? Perhaps because despite ...
