They may be tasty when you fry them up, but evidence is mounting that cephalopods like octopuses and squid possess consciousness. Over at the Cephalove blog, neuroscience student Mike Lisieski ...

With one of the largest brain-to-body size ratios of all the invertebrates, the inquisitive cuttlefish could teach us about the evolution of intelligence throughout the animal kingdom—even among ...

How can the soft bodies of coleoid cephalopods so aptly hide in their environment? Why must they? What cells and specialized organs make such crypsis possible for one of the older evolutionary groups ...

We named him Squirt – not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked.

The memory mechanisms of cephalopods consist of a series of matrices of intersecting axes, which find associations between the signals of input events and their consequences. The tactile memory is ...

Celebrate Cephalopod Week with our free kit full of party tips, mind-blowing videos, book suggestions, and fun STEM activities. With tips for party preparation, all-ages STEAM activities, mind-blowing ...

Q: When did you begin working with cuttlefish? Boal: I've been working with octopuses since 1988, but I didn't start researching cuttlefish until a few years later, in 1993. There are no cuttlefish in ...