For decades, breeding octopuses in captivity has proven a fish farming challenge too far, with numerous failed attempts to reproduce cephalopods outside their natural habitat. When Spanish company ...

Collected by the iconic American writer John Steinbeck, the octopus has received a number of scientific monikers Chihiro Kai Museum specialist Katie Ahlfeld holds up an octopus specimen that was ...

Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish -- even to scientists who study them -- are wonderfully weird creatures. Known as the soft-bodied or coleoid cephalopods, they have the largest nervous system of any ...

Cephalopods may have the oldest sex chromosomes of any animal, according to a new discovery in the octopus genome. That's a big deal given that scientists didn't know until now if these oddball ...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! No, not the holidays—it’s Cephalopod Week, and SciFri uses any excuse to celebrate the mysterious squid, the charismatic octopus and the cute cuttlefish. If ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Meghana Tummala. Buy this photo. Amid the glitz and glamour of the 93rd Academy Awards, ...

The octopus is one of the coolest animals in the sea. For starters, they are invertebrates. That means they don’t have backbones like humans, lions, turtles, and birds. That may sound unusual, but ...

An ancient cephalopod fossil may be about to rewrite the history of octopuses and vampire squid, but it depends on who you ask. At the very least, it’s offering up a lesson in how hard it is to ...

A lab in Massachusetts may have finally found an eight-armed cephalopod that can serve as a model organism and assist scientific research. By Elizabeth Preston Photographs and Video by Matt Cosby The ...

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.