The Oklahoma family thought the adventure would be getting the octopus, but they had no idea what Terrance had in store once ...
In an excerpt from the new book Secrets of the Octopus, an animal lover offers insight into this “strange, beautiful, curious ...
Seven hundred million years ago, a remarkable creature emerged for the first time. Though it may not have been much to look ...
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 ...
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 ...
The oldest known sex chromosome in animals has been discovered, pushing back the date for the evolution of sex chromosomes to ...
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.
Octopuses have impressive cognitive abilities and brains that are unique among invertebrates. A recent study by an international team coordinated by Remo Sanges (International School for Advanced ...
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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 ...