A common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) releasing ink. Credit: Shutterstock The most wonderful time of the year has arrived: Cephalopod Week, Science Friday’s annual tradition of spotlighting all things ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.