UC San Diego-led team discovers new method for producing large amounts of color-changing, nature-inspired pigment in the lab.

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) have achieved a biotechnological leap by successfully ...

Cephalopods such as octopus and squid evolutionarily diverged from mollusks like slugs and snails. These animals have elaborate compact nervous systems located within specialized arm appendages, which ...

These expert camouflage skills have intrigued scientists as long ago as 350 B.C., when Aristotle took interest in octopuses’ ...

It’s not just a figure of speech - in the cephalopod world, evolution really is an arms race. TierZoo compares species with different limb counts to analyze how dexterity, speed, and intelligence ...

In a separate 2024 study, researchers also made mice temporarily transparent. The study, published in Science, showed that ...

In something straight out of an H.P. Lovecraft horror story, a terrifying deep-sea squid has been filmed latching on to a camera over half a mile under the ocean's surface. The creature, which was ...