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 ...

Cephalopods are ‘incredibly intelligent.’ Wildlife advocates are urging regulators to do more to protect them. By David Abel Globe correspondent,Updated January 23, 2023, 6:43 p.m.

Cephalopod Week is back for another event series to cephalo-brate our favorite underwater invertebrates! For over 10 years, Science Friday has hosted Cephalopod Week, and along the way, we’ve ...

Scientists scanned a fossil of the Jurassic cephalopod Vampyronassa, pictured here, and found clues that it was an active hunter. A. Lethiers, CR2P-SU Finding and studying fossils of Earth’s ...

An extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Jurassic period seems to have had quite the penchant for overreaching. A new analysis of fossilized Tharsis fish reveals that the carnivorous ...

As cephalopods become more important in neuroscience and other fields, scientists and welfare advocates seek to give the smart animals the same protections as mice and monkeys.

A 330-million-year-old cephalopod fossil (pictured) may be the oldest ancestor of octopuses, but that interpretation hinges on how scientists identify one feature in the fossil. S. Thurston/AMNH ...

Unlike humans, cephalopods are extra sensitive to dark large things and light small things. Neill discovered this when he brought octopuses into his laboratory. There he found that they had more ...