Despite their cunning and intelligence, it’s highly unlikely that an octopus-like creature on some distant exoearth would ...
To understand how aliens might think, Dominic Sivitilli went to the bottom of the sea to find the closest thing: an octopus. Its sophisticated nervous systems and sensitive suckers allow it to do ...
He traced his enslaved ancestors back to Africa. Here’s how. He traced his enslaved ancestors back to Africa. Here’s how. Did this mysterious human relative bury its dead? Did this mysterious ...
The octopus, one of Earth’s oddest and most enduring creatures – they were here before dinosaurs – is spotlighted April 21 with NatGeo’s eye-opening “Secrets of the Octopus.” ...
Seven hundred million years ago, a remarkable creature emerged for the first time. Though it may not have been much to look ...
Researchers have identified an extinct vampire squid-like creature that is the first of its kind with 10 functional arms. The earliest known relative of octopuses and vampire squid has been named ...
With three hearts, blue blood, and the ability to squeeze through a space the size of their eyeballs, octopuses are said to be like aliens on Earth. The new National Geographic docuseries ...
A series of whole genome and gene duplication events that go back hundreds of millions of years have laid the foundations for tissue-specific gene expression, according to a new study. The 'copy-paste ...