Natalia Mesa was previously an intern at The Scientist and now freelances. She has a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Washington and a bachelor’s in biological sciences from Cornell ...

The octopus just revealed another one of its secrets ... "This indicates that their common ancestor had this similar sex determination system," Coffing said. That's somewhat unusual for sex ...

The California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides ... “This indicates that their common ancestor had this similar sex determination system,” Coffing said. Sex chromosomes directly impact ...

He looks back 600 million years, to reveal the worm-like creature which was the last common ancestor connecting us with the octopus and visits an extraordinary site off the coast of Australia ...

The octopus can produce an endless array of patterns ... ScienceDaily previously reported that the ancestor of octopuses and humans was the same primitive flatworm that trawled the sea floor ...