We wish could ask cephalopod scientists questions for eight days straight, but the next best thing is an hour-long reddit AMA. From SailboatAB: When I read about cephalopod intelligence, it’s always ...

Cephalopods, including octopuses, cuttlefish and squid, possess some of the most elaborate nervous systems and behavioural repertoires among invertebrates. Their large central brain, organised into ...

A cute observation in the cephalopods' behavior indicates they also react to sound waves, a notion that will soon be tested with a machine learning approach. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers just ...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- 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 the June ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An eye and arms of an octopus. The small dots visible around the eye are the chromatophores. The findings are the first to ...

We named him Squirt – not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked.

Good things come to those who wait—especially for the cuttlefish hanging out with Alexandra Schnell, a comparative psychologist at the University of Cambridge in England. For the past decade, Schnell ...

Over the past few years, I've spent many hours reading up on — and a morning observing — the smart, sassy behavior of octopuses. These cephalopods, who telegraph their moods by color changes and solve ...

Bret Grasse lovingly calls the Cephalopod Operations division at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts the “cephalopod empire.” The lab houses roughly 2,000 to 3,000 ...

Octopuses rely on visual cues to identify predators, prey and other marine creatures. Yet it has been difficult for researchers to study the animals' reactions to their natural environments, because ...