The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed reclassifying squids and other cephalopods as shellfish, removing its responsibility for regulating those fishery products and ensuring they are ...

Senators from opposite ends of the political spectrum are pushing to outlaw commercial octopus farming across the United States, citing animal welfare concerns and the risk that industrial-scale ...

On March 6, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) released a proposed rule that would amend its regulatory definition of shellfish by removing the phrase “having a shell” and expanding the ...

Marine scientists have identified a sleeper shark gliding through Antarctic waters, a sighting that is reshaping understanding of how some of the ocean’s most elusive predators endure Earth’s harshest ...

Nature is weird, if you haven't noticed. Waxwing birds get drunk on fermented fruit, there are sharks that lay eggs which look like corkscrews, and Brazil has a tree so huge it looks like a lush, ...

Currently, there is no federal oversight of the use of invertebrates in research in the United States. In a welcome move, the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) ...

The Dumbo octopus is an elusive cephalopod that gets its name from its large ear-like fins, which resemble those of the lovable Disney elephant. But there's still lots we don't know about these ...

Abstract: This letter presents a biomimetic underwater soft robot design with novel propulsion and maneuvering mechanisms. The robot design took inspirations from cephalopod molluscs. The proposed ...

Abstract: Cephalopods exhibit unique colour discrimination capabilities despite having one type of photoreceptor, relying instead on chromatic aberration induced by their ocular optics and pupil ...