For generations, scientists have relied on a handful of organisms to study the fundamentals of biology. The usual suspects—fruit flies, zebrafish, and mice, among others—all have short lifespans, ...

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A team of integrative biologists at the University of California, Berkeley, has found that differences in pygmy zebra octopus striping are strong enough to tell them apart in long-term studies. In ...

Mature male octopuses have a specialized 'hectocotylus' for transferring spermatophores containing sperm. Research by Keijiro Haruki and colleagues at Nagasaki University has revealed that a small ...

Researchers report culturing methods for the pygmy zebra octopus, an emerging laboratory research organism. For generations, scientists have relied on a handful of organisms to study the fundamentals ...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. — For generations, scientists have relied on a handful of organisms to study the fundamentals of biology. The usual suspects—fruit flies, zebrafish, and mice, among others—all have ...