The suckers are also packed with sensory receptors that allow the octopus to taste and smell things that they touch—like combining a hand with a tongue and a nose. The researchers believe the ...

For over half a billion years, evolution has sculpted the nervous systems of bilaterian animals, equipping them with ...

Researchers have developed a new electrically active biomaterial that can be transplanted into the body to improve recovery ...

The neurons in the octopus's arms are concentrated along an axial nerve cord that undulates down the length of each arm, with ...

Researchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) in Italy and Imperial College London in ...

By linking nervous system structures to broader evolutionary trends, the study provides a clearer picture of how the diverse ecdysozoan lineages arose and adapted to their environments.

Looking for the name of Marcel Proust on search engines, it seems that the centenary of his death (1922) has gone unnoticed by medical doctors. Several essays on his illness have already been ...

"Organisms with these sucker-laden appendages that have worm-like movements need the right kind of nervous system," Ragsdale said. "Different cephalopods have come up with a segmental structure ...

Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient ...