Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do ...

Cephalopods, such as squids and octopuses, are masters of disguise. Specialized skin cells allow them to change their color in response to their environment. Alon A. Gorodetsky of the University of ...

It’s long been accepted that cephalopods – such as squids and octopuses – are unable to see color because their eyes contain only one kind of receptor. New work however, shows that their pupils, which ...

Cephalopods—mollusks like octopus, squid, and cuttlefish—seem to universally excite people. Many marine enthusiasts have a favorite, from the color-changing octopus to the multi chambered nautilus.

Biologists have achieved the first gene knockout in a cephalopod using the squid Doryteuthis pealeii, an exceptionally important research organism in biology for nearly a century. The team used CRISPR ...

Cephalopods adapt to changing water temperatures by altering their RNA more often than their DNA, according to a new study As if octopuses, squids and other cephalopods were not already strange enough ...

A 3D image of a one day-old Brenner’s bobtail squid, Euprymna sp. hatchling. Credit: Jeff Jolly and Yuko Hasegawa You might think the bobtail squid would easily fall under #TeamCute. But this ...