Just like vertebrates, cephalopods—such as octopuses and squid—have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them ...

Cephalopods such as octopuses are known to feel pain, but there is a lack of suitable analgesics for use in these animals.

This octopus survives in plain sight. Here’s how it adapts its body in real time to mirror dangerous species and navigate one ...

Below the waves, giant marine reptiles, such as the fearsome 4m (13ft) long mosasaurs, were the undisputed apex predators. In artistic reconstructions of these ancient oceans, cephalopods – the animal ...

Some octopuses that lived over 72 million years ago were as long as whales. These huge predators may have been the largest ...

We named him Squirt—not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked.

Most people have encountered squid through their local seafood menu or field trip to an aquarium. Unlike octopuses, which are ...

We named him Squirt – not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked.

The ancient cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, appears to have been an apex predator that rivaled mosasaurs to rule ...

We love our listeners’ creativity! Here’s Ira showing off some fabulous squid artwork made by a listener. Cephalopods are fascinating animals—not just because of all the scientific research they ...

The most wonderful time of the year has arrived: Cephalopod Week, Science Friday’s annual tradition of spotlighting all things octopus, squid, and cuttlefish. One of the many things that make ...

A new book called Cephalopod Cognition, edited by researchers Anne-Sophie Darmaillacq, Ludovic Dickel, and Jennifer Mather, recently landed in my mailbox (the Kindle edition can be found here). This ...