People have different tastes. It turns out that octopuses, squid and cuttlefish do too. These soft-bodied cephalopods have proteins on suckers along their tentacles that allow them to “taste” by ...

An octopus has three hearts and long arms with suction cups. It probably seems very different from you. But you have the main ingredients of octopus ink in your body, too! I talked about octopus ink ...

Octopuses are perhaps the most unusual creatures to have ever inhabited the ocean. Their soft body, eight arms, and high level of intelligence make th.

Scientists have spent years trying to work out if octopuses, whose brains have some remarkable similarities to our own, have dreams. A recent study even purported that the eight-armed cephalopods can ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. To celebrate Earth Day, National Geographic produced an amazing ...

INVZMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "Largely shell-less relatives of clams and snails, the marine mollusks in the class Cephalopoda--Greek for head-foot --are ...

In the time it takes to blink, octopus and cuttlefish can seemingly disappear into their underwater environment by changing both the color and texture of their skin. Replicating these dual camouflage ...

This video presents underwater views of octopus, cuttlefish, squids, rays, and mobulas under the sea, filmed in 4K. Captured in natural marine settings with background music and no narration. Teens ...