In May-August each year, giant Australian cuttlefish gather and mate over a narrow stretch of rocky coastline in South Australia. At their peak you see literally one cuttlefish per square metre.
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Elusive and mysterious by nature, ordinary people are revealing the secrets of the UK’s octopuses.
Handedness is the tendency to prefer using one hand over the other to perform certain tasks. But how did we get this way?
Capuchin monkeys understand fairness, sheep recognise their friends, rats make sacrifices for buddies. Yes, animals are sentient. Here’s the science.
Environment news isn’t all bad, you know. Here are some of 2017’s happier stories, from friendly magpies to rebounding leopards.
It is estimated that 75% of the world’s coral reefs are already threatened.
Intentional actions by usually solitary octopuses improve a sandy site, allowing group living in ‘Octlantis’. But the buzz around the site grew quickly, creating some interesting interpretations.
Few fish can survive in these freezing waters, so invertebrates are the dominant predators.
Over 20 cephalopods crawled on to New Quay beach. What was going on?
Bootlegs will continue to be manufactured.
The future of the bootleg might just reinvent the official release.
We’re used to thinking of our eyes detecting light as the foundation of our visual system. But what’s going on in other cells throughout the body that can detect light, too?
From shapeshifting octopi to acid-firing beetles.
A new study shows cephalopods edit messages from their DNA, allowing them to adapt faster to their environment.
It’s not easy to tackle a live octopus - so many arms, all those suckers! But some bottlenose dolphins have found a way to defuse and eat these eight-armed sea creatures.
People are more likely to support conservation for cute rather than creepy-looking animals.
It may make sense for intelligent aliens to have two eyes and ears on one head, and to walk upright. But other particulars – including their colour – are more open to speculation.
‘Smell-free seas’ would be a disaster for marine life.
Yes, apes and dolphins are bright. But what about the other animal Einsteins?
Cephalopods are able to adapt rapidly to changing conditions.
The idea of non-human consciousness raises a host of philosophical questions.
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Principal Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation, Nottingham Trent University
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Research Fellow in Comparative Psychology, University of Cambridge
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Marine Ecologist and ARC Future Fellow, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor Marine Biology and Aquaculture, James Cook University
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Lecturer and Researcher in Behavioural ecology and Cephalopod Biology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull
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Professor, Macquarie University
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Toxinologist; Senior Research Fellow, Australian Venom Research Unit, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Ocean Exploration and Science Communication, University of Southampton
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Head Scientist, Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO - CSIC)
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Program Coordinator, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research
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Professor of Robotics Engineering, King's College London
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PhD candidate, Monash University
