Richard Fortey found his first trilobite aged just 14, after braving gorse bushes to break rocks on St David's Peninsula, the westernmost tip of Wales. This first encounter with a trilobite – which ...

Cephalopods, including octopuses and squids, are fascinating creatures known for their complex nervous systems and advanced cognitive abilities. Their brains are among the largest in the ...

Introduction: Like pelagic fishes, cephalopods represent fishery resources with high worldwide potential and an important evolutionary node animal group. Thus, exploring the spatial and seasonal ...

The arms of cephalopods such as octopuses are a marvel of nature. They combine flexibility and precision without a skeletal framework. These appendages enable complex movements and sensory ...

Cephalopods may have the oldest sex chromosomes of any animal, according to a new discovery in the octopus genome. That's a big deal given that scientists didn't know until now if these oddball ...

The Ecological Society of America has over 100 years of journal publishing history and offers some of the most widely read and cited journals in the field of ecology. The seven journals in our ...

Southern Ocean ecosystems are globally important and vulnerable to global drivers of change, yet they remain challenging to study. Fish and squid make up a significant portion of the biomass within ...

Understanding the intricate mechanisms of shark olfaction not only deepens our appreciation for ... [+] these remarkable predators but also opens the door to innovative applications in ...

"We think it's a feature that specifically evolved in soft-bodied cephalopods with suckers to carry out these worm-like movements." The study, "Neuronal segmentation in cephalopod arms," was ...