Science Friday will still celebrate Cephalopod Week later this year, but we’ve decided that now is not the time. Science Friday has made the decision to postpone Cephalopod Week and its events until ...

Researchers have identified the earliest known relative of modern-day vampyropods. The family of creatures includes both octopuses and squid. The scientists published a study in the journal Nature ...

Cephalopods are bizarre creatures, but these Lovecraftian life-forms didn’t get their genes from Cthluhu, who supposedly lies dead and dreaming in the watery depths of R’lyeh. You could argue that the ...

Researchers from the University of Vienna (Austria), National Institute of Technology—Wakayama College (NITW; Japan), and Shimane University (Japan) present the largest cephalopod genome sequenced to ...

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 ...