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 ...

Cephalopods are marine predators with most species actively hunting for their preys, while other are scavengers. Understanding the physiological adaptations of these fascinating and complex molluscs ...

illustrating the consequences of the non-delayed “explosive” diversification of these extinct cephalopod mollusks after the crisis. This image relates to an article that appeared in the August ...

The large eyes and well developed optic lobes of cephalopod mollusks have attracted researchers since the 19th century. They exemplify convergent evolution with many similarities to fish, especially ...

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 ...

The animal had 10 tentacles and was part of a group of predator cephalopod molluscs that lived in the area. No details were made public as to the squid's size. According to La Jornada, the finding ...

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But ammonites weren't reptiles: they were ocean-dwelling molluscs, specifically cephalopods. Zoë Hughes, Curator of Fossil Invertebrates at the Museum, explains, 'Ammonites are extinct shelled ...

These studies have turned up many things, not the least of which is the uniqueness of cephalopod adaptations in their skin and musculature. Virtually every part of a cephalopod body has ...

I am responsible for the curation of the terrestrial and freshwater Mollusca plus the Cephalopod collections within the Mollusc group in the Department of Life Sciences at the Natural History Museum ...

When molluscs arose about 500 million years ago ... The only descendants that have evolved are the cephalopods like the squids and octopuses. However, even this group is still in the sea, most ...