Critics offer many arguments against raising octopuses for food, including possible releases of waste, antibiotics or ...

We named him Squirt – not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity ...

Cephalopod intelligence, behavior, and ethical treatment explored by a comparative psychologist in a thought-provoking ...

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 ...

Octopuses are strange creatures, and even after thousands of years of study, the facts that we unravel about these cephalopods continue to amaze us. For instance, researchers discovered that these ...

It’s a well-known fact that octopuses have eight arms. But did you know that each arm contains its own ‘mini brain’? Jon Ablett, who cares for the cephalopod collection at the Natural History Museum, ...

Drawing on over 300 scientific studies, we have evaluated the evidence of sentience in two groups of invertebrate animals: the cephalopod molluscs or, for short, cephalopods (including octopods, squid ...