This ancient cephalopod, often described as a “living fossil,” was sighted in late November 2024 during an underwater operation near the German Channel in Palau. The sighting, which marks the ...

According to The New York Times, some paleontologists like Christian Klug believe it is instead a known species of ancient cephalopods. Of course, Dr. Whalen says that there are enough differences ...

These cephalopods make for ideal index fossils ... Ammonite fossils also reveal information about ancient climates, as the sites where they are unearthed must have once been covered by ancient ...

Tusoteuthis was a giant squid nearly equal in size to those that ply the oceans today—with their tentacles stretched out, the ancient cephalopods may have measured 25 to 35 feet (8 to 11 meters ...

How can the soft bodies of coleoid cephalopods so aptly hide in their environment? Why must they? What cells and specialized organs make such crypsis possible for one of the older evolutionary ...

Drawing on over 300 scientific studies, we have evaluated the evidence of sentience in two groups of invertebrate animals: the cephalopod molluscs or, for short, cephalopods (including octopods, squid ...