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 ...

(Eric VOLTO/500px/Getty Images) Biologists have long believed that having a large brain, relative to your body, might go hand ...

New research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and Yale shows that the oldest ancestors of the group of animals that includes octopuses and vampire squids had not 8 but 10 ...

Researchers have identified the earliest known relative of modern-day vampyropods. The family of creatures includes both octopuses and squid. The scientists published a study in the journal Nature ...

New DNA probes allow for efficient surveying of the hidden lives of squids and octopuses in the deep sea. This development provides an effective tool for marine ecological research and conservation ...

An ongoing research project exploring the effects of rising levels of oceanic CO2 on squid neurology reveals that exposure to ...

The spatial organization of chromatophore-muscle innervation by motoneurons enables the generation of chromatophore-shaped noise, virtual or composite chromatophores, and shape elements such as lines ...

New research shows that the oldest ancestors of the group of animals that includes octopuses and vampire squids had not eight but 10 arms. The study, which describes a new species of vampyropod based ...