Why do we love cephalopods so much at Science Friday? Partly it’s because they’re cute (or at least some of them are). Partly it’s because they’re so smart ...

The octopus is an animal with a seemingly endless amount of weird and wonderful traits, all the way down to its DNA. A new report published in the journal Cell has revealed yet another bizarre facet ...

These eight-legged spineless creatures, one of the most fascinating to inhabit our planet, have been seen in record numbers ...

Cephalopod Movie Night returns! From June 21 to 28, celebrate our favorite undersea creatures with Science Friday at 10 cities across the nation. Three hearts, eight arms, can’t lose. Cephalopod Week ...

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 ...

When I first saw a picture of the blanket octopus I did a double take. I’d never heard of a blanket octopus before, which is surprising given the internet’s obsession with both large cephalopods and ...

Over the past few years, I've spent many hours reading up on — and a morning observing — the smart, sassy behavior of octopuses. These cephalopods, who telegraph their moods by color changes and solve ...

Sierra Nelson loves cephalopods. Squids, octopuses, cuttlefish—you name it, if it’s a bilateral mollusk with a big-ass head, Nelson is positively gaga over it. Nelson is a Seattle-area poet, and you ...

With a growing world population and climate challenges that are causing agricultural areas to shrink, many are wondering where sustainable food will come from in the future. A professor of ...

Biologists have achieved the first gene knockout in a cephalopod using the squid Doryteuthis pealeii, an exceptionally important research organism in biology for nearly a century. The team used CRISPR ...

This east Pacific red octopus is in the same family as squid, cuttlefish — and kraken. (UW Laboratory of Comparative Systems Neuroscience Photo) With Seattle Kraken hockey franchise making its NHL ...