Octopuses have long been known as escape artists and problem-solvers, but a new Dartmouth study adds a striking skill to their résumé: they can use mirrors to locate prey hidden out of their line of sight, a form of spatial... Continue Reading →
If you thought octopuses couldn't get any more astonishing, allow me to introduce the newest member of the family: Opisthoteuthis carnarvonensis, or the Carnarvon Flapjack Octopus. Formally described in May 2025, this tiny, gelatinous marvel was hiding over a mile... Continue Reading →
Helen Czerski uncovers the amazing light show that ensues when a cardinal fish swallows an ostracod.Just hocus pocus awesomeness! Watch: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p024m0s1
Octopuses appear to deliberately throw debris, sometimes directed at other octopuses, according to a study publishing Nov. 9 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE led by Peter Godfrey-Smith at the University of Sydney and colleagues. Researchers recorded the behavior of gloomy octopuses... Continue Reading →
The Giant Wood Moth is the heaviest moth in the world, with some females weighing up to 30 grams. The caterpillars of wood moths feed on plant roots, but the adults do not feed during their short life span. The... Continue Reading →
The axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) is an aquatic salamander renowned for its ability to regenerate its spinal cord, heart and limbs. These amphibians also readily make new neurons throughout their lives. In 1964, researchers observed that adult axolotls could regenerate parts of their brains, even if a... Continue Reading →
Jumping spiders rapidly move their eyes and twitch during rest, suggesting they have visual dreams, never before observed in arachnids. An international team of researchers studied the retinal movements of baby jumping spiders as they slept and found they coincided... Continue Reading →
The octopus is an exceptional organism with an extremely complex brain and cognitive abilities that are unique among invertebrates. So much so that in some ways it has more in common with vertebrates than with invertebrates. The neural and cognitive... Continue Reading →
Johns Hopkins University researchers discovered precisely how spiders build webs by using night vision and artificial intelligence to track and record every movement of all eight legs as spiders worked in the dark. Their creation of a web-building playbook or... Continue Reading →