Seeing A Cephalopod In Ancient Bones The origins of a stash of 220-million-year-old, 40-plus-foot-long ichthyosaur bones at a Nevada site have long puzzled paleontologists. Paleontologist Mark ...

The creature’s discovery pushes back the time frame when vampyropods, the group to which cephalopods like octopuses ... quickly than hard structures like bone. A well-preserved fossil was ...

Glenn Storrs, the curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Cincinnati Museum Center, summed up the skepticism to LiveScience in 2011, calling the weird bone arrangement "circumstantial evidence ...

Cephalopods, as we know, are masters of trickery ... So we’re used to thinking of muscles as creating movement in our arms, in our legs, contracting a bone. But in this particular case, they’re using ...

Cuttlefish, along with octopuses and squid, are cephalopods—animals from an ancient branch of the tree of life that have been trolling the oceans for more than 500 million years. Cuttlefish were ...

This isn’t a scene from science fiction but a glimpse into Earth’s distant past, when Cameroceras, a monstrous cephalopod, ruled the oceans. Long before dinosaurs even dreamed of walking the ...

As more studies reveal the intelligence of cephalopods and explore their perceptions of pain, wildlife advocates have pressed regulators to do more to protect them and require that researchers ...

Finding food and staying safe as a soft, flexible cephalopod requires a different set of visual sensitivities and skills than the ones we humans use when we’re walking through a fluorescently ...

A team at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) has successfully engineered an albino strain of the hummingbird bobtail squid, Euprymna berryi. This advance, reported in Current Biology, has ...