You will be redirected to our submission process. The large eyes and well developed optic lobes of cephalopod mollusks have attracted researchers since the 19th century. They exemplify convergent ...

The discovery of Punk ferox and Emo vorticaudum is a reminder of how much remains to be learned about life’s evolutionary ...

Insects make up about forty per cent of living species, and we tend to kill them without pause. New research explores the ...

But there’s undeniably something special about cephalopods – the class of ocean-dwelling invertebrates that includes ...

The findings have been published in the journal Nature.

The mimic octopus, which lives in sandy habitats devoid of any shelter, even impersonates some of the ocean’s deadliest ...

Back in 2021, a test of cephalopod smarts reinforced how important it is for us humans to not underestimate animal intelligence. Cuttlefish were given a new version of the marshmallow test, and the ...

Fossils of two prehistoric marine molluscs with distinctive spiky “hairstyles” have been discovered and named Punk and Emo. Their strange appearance highlights the ancient diversity of ...