In an excerpt from the new book Secrets of the Octopus, an animal lover offers insight into this “strange, beautiful, curious creature.” ...
The Oklahoma family thought the adventure would be getting the octopus, but they had no idea what Terrance had in store once ...
Our last common ancestor ... they view the human species in the book as a threat to them, most of the time. When you think about encounters that human beings have with an octopus, most of those ...
Seven hundred million years ago, a remarkable creature emerged for the first time. Though it may not have been much to look ...
The findings support previous scientific arguments that the common ancestor of vampyropods had ... from the eight-armed octopus and vampire squid line (Vampyropoda). “We have long understood ...
The octopus is another non-human creature with demonstrable intelligence and ancient roots. A cephalopod fossil named Syllipsimopodi bideni was discovered in 2022, dating this ancestor of the ...
Seasoned diver Jules Casey assumed the enormous octopus was merely curious about her when he stretched out a long tentacle ...
Humans are everywhere nowadays, but Homo sapiens and our close relatives weren't so widespread in the past. In fact, the ...
And here's a cool fact from Smithsonian Magazine, "To survive in the deep ocean, octopuses’ blood is powered by a ...
Underwater glove puts octopus' abilities on the hand of humans Underwater glove puts octopus' abilities on the hand of humans Underwater glove puts octopus' abilities on the hand of humans ...
Humans are exceptionally diverse, but we all have something in common: We're Homo sapiens, and we share a common ancestor. But the story of how we arose, spread around the globe and acted along ...
A series of whole genome and gene duplication events that go back hundreds of millions of years have laid the foundations for tissue-specific gene expression, according to a new study. The 'copy-paste ...