New research at the UO reveals that they have been using one that has existed for 480 million years. The octopus has just ...

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Researchers have identified a sex chromosome in the California two-spot octopus. This chromosome has likely been around for 480 million years, since before octopuses split apart from the nautilus on ...

The research suggest octopus and other cephalopods, like squid and cuttlefish, all rely on the ancient chromosome to ...

Introduction: Like pelagic fishes, cephalopods represent fishery resources with high worldwide potential and an important evolutionary node animal group. Thus, exploring the spatial and seasonal ...

Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient ...

“The names Punk and Emo were actually our initial pet names for these ancient mollusks, inspired by some of their unique features and individuality,” says lead study author Dr. Mark Sutton from ...

“We think it’s a feature that specifically evolved in soft-bodied cephalopods with suckers to carry out these worm-like movements.” The study was recently published in Nature Communications. Each ...

“We think it’s a feature that specifically evolved in soft-bodied cephalopods with suckers to carry out these worm-like movements.” The study, “Neuronal segmentation in cephalopod arms ...