Russia is working on a new armed underwater drone designed to kill enemy submarines. The unmanned Cephalopod drone packs small, lightweight torpedoes capable of fatally wounding enemy submarines on ...

Most aquatic species have fresh water and salt water varieties, however I cannot remember hearing of a freshwater cephalopod. Do they exist, and if not, what is the most likely reason why not?

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 groups ...

Cephalopod champions, assemble! Cephalopod Week has returned for its sixth year of celebration and merriment of all things armed, tentacled, and suckered. And this year, Science Friday’s ...

We love our listeners’ creativity! Here’s Ira showing off some fabulous squid artwork made by a listener. Cephalopods are fascinating animals—not just because of all the scientific research they ...

Sierra Nelson loves cephalopods. Squids, octopuses, cuttlefish—you name it, if it’s a bilateral mollusk with a big-ass head, Nelson is positively gaga over it. Nelson is a Seattle-area poet, and you ...

Imagine a skeleton-less creature with three hearts, with most of its nearly half a billion neurons distributed in eight tentacular arms. Each arm can regenerate like the mythical Hydra and has a mind ...