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Plants & Animals Sep 27, 2022

Fish scientist helped the alien in Jordan Peele's 'Nope' seem terrifyingly real

When Kelsi Rutledge came to UCLA to pursue graduate studies, she didn't expect to land a side hustle in Hollywood. But her discovery of a new fish species attracted the attention of director Jordan Peele, and she enthusiastically ...

Plants & Animals May 31, 2022

Cuttlefish camouflage may be more complex than previously thought

A new study published in Current Biology suggests that the European cuttlefish (sepia officinalis) may combine, as necessary, two distinct neural systems that process specific visual features from its local environment and ...

Evolution May 4, 2022

Squid and octopus genome studies reveal how cephalopods' unique traits evolved

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 system of any invertebrate, complex behaviors ...

Environment Apr 18, 2022

Microplastics permeate seafood across southern Australia

Plastic rubbish is everywhere and now broken-down microplastics have been found in variable concentrations in blue mussels and water within the intertidal zone at some of southern Australia's most popular and more remote ...

Plants & Animals Apr 5, 2022

Squid recorded color-matching a substrate for the first time

While octopus and cuttlefish are famous for their use of camouflage to match the color of the substrate, squid have never been reported displaying this ability. Now, in a study published in Scientific Reports, scientists ...

Plants & Animals Apr 5, 2022

The hidden world of octopus cities and culture shows why it's wrong to farm them

A recently proposed aquaculture octopus farm in the Canary Islands would raise 3,000 tons of octopus a year, which means almost 275,000 individual octopuses will be killed annually.

Ecology Mar 24, 2022

Octopus farms raise huge animal welfare concerns - and they're unsustainable too

When you imagine an octopus's world, you might well see a curious creature in a complex undersea environment.

Paleontology & Fossils Mar 9, 2022

Meet the 10-armed, 325-million-year-old octopus fossil named after President Joe Biden

In an ancient shallow bay of what is now Montana, the body of an octopus-like creature the size of a fist was buried on the seafloor. Some 325–328 million years later, a new paper published in Nature Communications provides ...

Paleontology & Fossils Mar 8, 2022

New species of extinct vampire-squid–like cephalopod is the first of its kind with ten functional arms

New research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and Yale shows that the oldest ancestors of the group of animals that includes octopuses and vampire squids had not 8 but 10 arms. The study, which ...

Materials Science Feb 24, 2022

How squid camouflage could help prevent skin cancer in humans

It wasn't the result the scientists wanted.

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