While a squid can often be confused with an octopus, these soft-bodied mollusks are quite different for many reasons. Apart ...

They did experiments on squid nerve cells thinking that those cells were good models for the human nervous system. Now a team of scientists in Germany says the squid may not be such a good model ...

Scientists who watched nerve cells connect inside the eyes of growing squid have uncovered a remarkable ... because a lot of what we know about nervous system development in vertebrates has ...

These squid have eight arms with muscles and suckers ... that have worm-like movements need the right kind of nervous system," Ragsdale said. "Different cephalopods have come up with a segmental ...

Like octopuses and cuttlefish, squid skin is covered in pigment-containing cells called chromatophores. These are controlled by minuscule muscles, which are in turn controlled by the nervous system.

The squid grow to be about a foot long and are ... It long has been considered one of the reasons the vertebrate nervous system could grow so large and complex. Scientists have observed examples ...

Scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory created an albino strain of bobtail squid (on left) that allows for clear optical viewing of the nervous system in a living cephalopod for research.

In the longfin squid’s nervous system, for instance, 27 percent of mRNAs have three or more recoding sites. Some contain 10 or more such sites. Combinations of those editing sites could result ...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. – Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish – even to scientists who study them – are wonderfully weird creatures. Known as the soft-bodied or coleoid cephalopods, they have the ...

Lee Jung-jae may feel satisfied by the upcoming “ Squid Game ” series finale, but he’s still worried about how fans will ...