Harvard biologist Mandë Holford studies venomous snails and other toxic creatures to unlock new medications that may one day ...

It's well-known that cuttlefish and several other cephalopods can rapidly shift the colors in their skin thanks to that ...

Three studies of the brain regions responsible for processing sensory information show that their neurons are and communicate ...

For instance, sentience evolved independently in vertebrates, arthropods, and cephalopods ... Feinberg rejects single-cell theories of consciousness, such as the cellular basis of consciousness ...

Then a lens focuses it onto a layer of light-detecting cells at the back of the eye called the retina. We share this structure with our fellow mammals and other vertebrates. Camera eyes also evolved ...

Under the chromatophores are cells that reflect ambient light, called leucophores, and in some cephalopods, cells that produce changing reflectance and iridescent colours known as iridophores. The ...

Instead, tiny stinging cells along its surface fire venom into anything that ... Found in tide pools and shallow waters along the West Coast and the Gulf of California, this little cephalopod is ...

However, the deeper water in exclusive economic zones contains abundant resources with great harvest potential, like the hairtail and cephalopods that inhabit ... The end of the leg was connected to a ...

That makes it one of the oldest known animal sex chromosomes. The finding also is evidence that octopuses and other cephalopods, a class of sea animals that includes squid and nautiluses ...

That makes it one of the oldest known animal sex chromosomes. The finding also is evidence that octopuses and other cephalopods, a class of sea animals that includes squid and nautiluses ...