- Denizens Of Deep Seas And Deep Time: Part 3: The Vampire Squid
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... from hell’. It is a small, deep-sea animal, neither an octopus or a squid but a relative and phylogenetic relic or living fossil first ...
Article - Sarda Sahney - Oct 8 2019 - 10:08pm - 0 attachments
- Gods & Cephalopods
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... closely related to modern squid, cuttlefish and octopus. Cephalopods have a complex eye structure and swim rapidly. ...
Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Jul 7 2019 - 4:18pm - 0 attachments
- Why Aren't More Of You A Lefty?
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... left. (Wikimedia) Cephalopods, octopus, cuttlefish and squid are a group of molluscs (like snails) that do ... cephalopod behavior in the 1980s, we didn’t think that octopus or cuttlefish could distinguish left from right, but more recent work ...
Article - The Conversation - Jan 27 2018 - 7:00am - 0 attachments
- Weird Pupils Let Octopuses See Their Colorful Gardens
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... ways to minimize this effect, the U-shaped pupils of octopus and their squid and cuttlefish relatives actually maximize this ... experienced firsthand how colorful cuttlefish, squid and octopus - and their surroundings - are. He came up with the idea that ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2016 - 7:30am - 0 attachments
- Happiness Can Break Your Heart Too
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... remains narrow, creating a shape resembling a Japanese octopus trap, from which it gets its name. Since this relatively rare condition ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2016 - 7:17am - 0 attachments
- Our Closest Wormy Cousins
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... Recently, the OIST team also sequenced the genomes of the octopus and the coral Porites australiensis . ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 18 2015 - 8:08pm - 0 attachments
- How Easy Would It Be to Communicate with Musical ETs - as in "Close Encounters Of A Third Kind"?
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... But even if you had hands, or even if you were like an octopus, quite dextrous, still it might be quite hard to do much even with ... and even with some way of manipulating things. Octopus carrying coconut shells around with it as a form of "mobile home" to ...
Blog Post - Robert Walker - Sep 24 2015 - 6:23pm - 0 attachments
- AI Does Science: First Model Of Regeneration Discovered By Non-Human Intelligence
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... of many genetic pathway models will look like a tree, an octopus or a human," said Levin. "Most models show some necessary components ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2015 - 11:30am - 0 attachments
- Vampire Squid And The Evolution Of Cephalopod Sex
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... ripening and spawning eggs. There are extremes, from the octopus mothers who starve to death while guarding their eggs to the squid ...
Article - Danna Staaf - May 2 2015 - 8:18am - 0 attachments
- Cephalopod April Fools' Roundup
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... cephalopods know how to have their fun, too. Here's the octopus "gesture to speech" technology that wowed us all just nine short days ...
Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Mar 26 2015 - 11:09pm - 0 attachments
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