Like many other deep-sea cephalopods, some species of whip-lash squid can produce bioluminescence using photophores. It's not clear why they have evolved light-producing organs, but they might ...

Some scientists claim that octopuses could be the next big species after humans go extinct and that there is much to learn about the tentacled sea creatures. These are some ways that octopuses have ...

This differs from other cephalopods, which usually have one or two specific ... especially such specialised habitats like the Dumbo octopus lives in,' Jon explains. 'Deep-sea mining affects animals ...

a rare sight that could unlock new information on deep-sea cephalopods Christian Thorsberg Genes associated with the torso are largely absent in a species of starfish, upending how scientists ...

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a rare sight that could unlock new information on deep-sea cephalopods Smithsonian scholars offer their reflections on the author, who died last week at age 89, and his impact on a new generation ...

Octopuses are cephalopods that live in oceans around ... of Sydney and the author of "Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness," said to the BBC.