In an excerpt from the new book Secrets of the Octopus, an animal lover offers insight into this “strange, beautiful, curious ...
The Oklahoma family thought the adventure would be getting the octopus, but they had no idea what Terrance had in store once ...
Thus, they represent the octopus sex chromosomes not as XY and XX as in humans, but as ZZ and Z0. The researchers then ...
Seven hundred million years ago, a remarkable creature emerged for the first time. Though it may not have been much to look ...
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 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 ...
The researchers identified the same active transposon, or ‘jumping gene’, in human brains and in two species of octopus, the common Octopus vulgaris and the Californian Octopus bimaculoides. Over 45% ...
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 ...