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 ...

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 ...

Brandon also takes us into the lab of two cephalopod researchers: “octopus matchmaker” Richard Ross, ... contracting a bone. But in this particular case, they’re using muscles that are oriented in ...

The oldest ancestor of modern octopuses lived 328 million years ago and had 10 arms, according to a new study. Researchers have named the previously unknown species after US President Joe Biden.

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 ...

Cameroceras might not be a household name, but its legacy is monumental. This ancient cephalopod lived around 470 million years ago during the Ordovician period, a time when complex life was just ...

Squids and octopuses eat and are eaten, and in between that they move around a lot. "Cephalopods play an important role in marine ecosystems, contributing to the distribution of energy and ...

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 ...

What cephalopod studies have lacked, however, is a model organism amenable to genetic study. While decades of research into fruit flies and mice has uncovered the genetic basis of development, ...

Cephalopods have developed unique visual systems to deal with their underwater world. Skip to main content. Scientific American. December 22, 2023. 5 min read. Octopuses Are Colorblind.