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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Seasoned diver Jules Casey assumed the enormous octopus was merely curious about her when he stretched out a long tentacle ...
To this day, more than 7,000 groups of genes can be traced back to the last common ancestor of bilaterians, according to a study of 20 different bilaterian species including humans, sharks ...
Humans are everywhere nowadays, but Homo sapiens and our close relatives weren't so widespread in the past. In fact, the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Not only is factory farming the biggest cause of animal cruelty on the planet, it is damaging our planet through pollution, ...