Cephalopods are fascinating creatures, and their primary living representative -- the octopus -- has recently been the subject of the Academy Award winning documentary "My Octopus Teacher." They are ...

Why do we love cephalopods so much at Science Friday? Partly it’s because they’re cute (or at least some of them are). Partly it’s because they’re so smart ...

Nautiloids—a lineage of ancient, externally-shelled cephalopods that diverged from their octopus and squid relatives over 400 million years ago—once dominated our oceans. Today, this living fossil is ...

The public radio program Science Friday spends a week each year discussing octopi and squid. We just wanted to get in on the fun. For more than a decade, the public radio program Science Friday has ...

Nautiloids are the sole surviving family of externally-shelled cephalopods that thrived in the tropical oceans 450–150 million years ago. However, in the intervening years their modern soft bodied ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Liquid removal rates in chambers of the living cephalopod Nautilus depend on two factors: the surface area of siphuncular epithelium exposed ...

I believe we've discussed Polish illustrator Adam Pękalski before, but due to the vagaries of the sealed-lips-to-sphincter suction of this blog's search capabilities, I can't prove it. Yet the vivid, ...

The eight-day squid-and-kin appreciation extravaganza of Cephalopod Week is nearly over, but there’s still plenty to learn and love about these tentacled “aliens” of the deep. After a rare video ...