The personal web page of Dr. James B. Wood, an assistant research scientist at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, The Cephalopod Page pays homage to the fascinating group of oceanic organisms ...

Collected by the iconic American writer John Steinbeck, the octopus has received a number of scientific monikers Chihiro Kai Museum specialist Katie Ahlfeld holds up an octopus specimen that was ...

Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish -- even to scientists who study them -- are wonderfully weird creatures. Known as the soft-bodied or coleoid cephalopods, they have the largest nervous system of any ...

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 ...

New research shows that the oldest ancestors of the group of animals that includes octopuses and vampire squids had not eight but 10 arms. The study, which describes a new species of vampyropod based ...

Octopuses can solve puzzles, learn quickly, and sometimes act like they are just messing with us. Now, researchers say the roots of that intelligence may be hiding in something tiny and surprisingly ...

In the technique known as “environmental DNA metabarcoding,” probes are designed to target specific DNA fragments, similar to how anglers use specific bait to catch a particular species. The challenge ...

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 ...