I've heard the assertion that octopuses have short- and long-term memories several times in the past few days, mostly in discu...

In my recent quest to find new, cutting-edge research on cephalopods, I've come across some neat stuff (check out this post on the perce...

In Washington, a Pacific Giant Octopus is released into the wild with a kiss !  I don't know that I'd kiss a cephalopod, but the pic...

Time for a treat!  The last post was about the ecological significance of retinal organization in coastal and oceanic squids.  The study I r...

Keeping with the theme of sensory systems, I thought I'd review some newer research on squids. While searching for recent cephalopod n...

First things first: a few recent cephalopods in popular news media: Paul, the German octopus , successfully predicted yet another World Cu...

I thought I'd mix things up a little bit and take a look at some research on the sensory abilities of cuttlefish.  Specifically, I'd...

This will be a quick one - I'll get back to the meat of my series on octopus sensory systems soon, but I wanted to write a post on this ...

Having finished the last post with a short discussion of hunting/foraging behavior in the octopus, I figured I should do a lighter post with...

In this post, I'll be talking about octopus tactile sensation.  M. J. Wells and J. Z. Young did the classic experimental work on touch d...