A new MBARI video showcases Japetella diaphana, a rare open-water octopus that switches between transparent and opaque orange ...

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Researchers at UC San Diego have figured out how to get bacteria to produce xanthommatin, the pigment that lets octopuses and squids camouflage. By linking the pigment’s production to bacterial ...

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Just like vertebrates, cephalopods — such as octopuses and squid — have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them for insights into how intelligence evolved. Three hearts; blue blood; no ...

Pohlsepia mazonensis, a visually underwhelming fossil from Illinois, fundamentally broke our understanding of cephalopod evolution. Described in 2000 and hailed as the oldest known octopus in the ...

A prehistoric fossil previously thought to belong to the world's oldest octopus has been reclassified as something else, after scientists discovered the remains actually belonged to a different type ...