Coconut shell octopus in Lembeh Straits. Photo via Getty Images Ray Nayler’s novel The Mountain in the Sea asks the kinds of questions about us, our future and our interaction with other living ...
This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the Altay Mountains of southern Siberia, some 200 miles from where Russia touches Mongolia, China, and Kazakhstan ...
Researchers have identified an extinct vampire squid-like creature that is the first of its kind with 10 functional arms. The earliest known relative of octopuses and vampire squid has been named ...
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 ...
Slime molds, which live in soil, are truly ancient animals. They arrived on land close to a billion years ago and may well have colonized continents that were then home only to films of bacteria.
Humans are everywhere nowadays, but Homo sapiens and our close relatives weren't so widespread in the past. In fact, the ...
Australian diver Jules Casey was familiar with the octopus and had interacted with it before, but not like this. The octopus ...
Narrated by Paul Rudd and executive produced by James Cameron, this three-part nature documentary is a visually stunning ...
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A new robotic suction cup which can grasp rough, curved and heavy stone, has been developed by scientists at the University of Bristol. The team, based at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, studied the ...
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 ...
A team of researchers led by Virginia Tech Assistant Professor Michael Bartlett have developed an octopus-inspired glove capable of securely gripping objects underwater. Their research was ...