In an excerpt from the new book Secrets of the Octopus, an animal lover offers insight into this “strange, beautiful, curious creature.” ...
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 ...
To understand how aliens might think, Dominic Sivitilli went to the bottom of the sea to find the closest thing: an octopus. Its sophisticated nervous systems and sensitive suckers allow it to do ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...