Tag: squid

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 27, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bending, biceps, biology, Biomimetics, brain software, chameleon, Current Biology, elephant, elephant trunk, engineering, evolution, hydrostat, intelligent design, King Jeroboam, muscles, muscular hydrostat, natural selection, Noel Naughton, octopus, octopus arm, physiology, snake, squid, triceps muscle, unbending}

Independent Origins of Muscular Hydrostats Are Another Conundrum for Evolution

_{David Coppedge
October 27, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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How does Professor Naughton explain this baffling similarity? He invokes the fallacy that a physical constraint compels natural selection to create a solution. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 28, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Bheki Mahlobo, California, Carlo Rovelli, Catholics, Chapman University, Christianity, Elon Musk, engineers, Evangelicals, faith, Great Britain, hard problem of consciousness, Hong Kong, India, Joel Kotkin, mathematicians, mind, molecular biology, near-death experiences, New Atheists, new synergy, opossum, Piers Morgan, scientists, Society of Catholic Scientists, squid, Stephen Meyer, stereotypes, Taiwan, thanatosis, The Telegraph, universe}

Mind Behind the Universe? A Stereotype About Scientists May Be Crumbling

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 28, 2026

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Scientific Reasoning

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Joel Kotkin points to a recent conference that brought together top engineers, mathematicians, and scientists to discuss the “new synergy.” Read More ›

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Date
July 23, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, asocial brain, body temperature, brain, cephalopods, cuttlefish, dog, dolphins, ectotherm, endotherms, habitat, intelligence, iScience, Jennifer Mather, Jess Cockerill, Lisa Hendry, mammals, mirror, Natural History Museum, neurology, neurons, neuroscience, octopus, ScienceAlert, shellfish, social brain, squid, University of Lethbridge, whales}

Hey Octopus, How Did You Get to Be So Smart?

_{Science & Culture
July 23, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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With the asocial brain hypothesis, researchers ask us to think beyond traditional explanations for why some animals display unexpected intelligence. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 10, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, cats, coral, crabs, cuttlefish, Dogs, fetus, Jonathan Birch, lobsters, London School of Economics, Marc Bekoff, neuroscience, octopuses, pain, Psychology Today, sentience, squid}

What Do Animals Feel? And What About Babies?

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 10, 2025

Bioethics, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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With human babies, those who propose laws against cruelty suddenly enter a Cold Zone, at least compared to their feelings for crustaceans. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 19, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, amphibians, animal rights, bees, cognition, consciousness, crabs, crustaceans, cuttlefish, Dan Falk, eliminative materialism, fish, insects, lobsters, memory, nature rights, Nautilus, New York University, octopuses, Phys.org, Quanta, reptiles, sentience, squid, Thomas Nagel}

What Does It Mean to Say “Lobsters Are Conscious”?

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 19, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Much will be learned from a more careful analysis of the behavior of life forms, which will likely turn up many more instances of unexpected sentience. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 9, 2022

Categories
Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, apes, brain, crows, cuttlefish, Dogs, dolphins, elephants, intelligence, MicroRNAs, nervous system, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, octopuses, Oregon, RNA, squid, vertebrates, whales}

MicroRNAs: A New Clue About Octopus Intelligence?

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 9, 2022

Biology, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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While octopus brains are very different from vertebrate brains, they share with vertebrates, a huge number of microRNAs. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 2, 2022

Categories
Biology
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, animal phyla, Anomalocaris, body plans, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Carboniferous Period, cephalopods, chordates, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Lophotrochozoa, Macquarie University, new york, paleontology, Simon Conway Morris, squid, stem group}

Fossil Friday: Nectocaris, the Impossible Squid

_{Günter Bechly
September 2, 2022

Biology, Paleontology, Science

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Paleontology sometimes seems like a kind of imaginative Rorschach test with the flattened fauna of roadkill. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 23, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, cephalopod, convergent evolution, crabs, evolution, Germany, human eye, intelligence, lens, lobsters, Nautilus, octopuses, photoreceptors, retina, squid}

Octopus Intelligence Poses Evolutionary Convergence Conundrum

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 23, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Outstandingly bright — with eyes that strikingly resemble ours — yet their ancestors split from mammals and birds 600 million years ago. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 1, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, bees, crabs, crustaceans, cuttlefish, emotion, entomologists, Eric Cassell, insects, intelligent design, invertebrates, lobsters, neuroscience, octopuses, predators, snails, squid, University of Minnesota, vertebrates}

Do Invertebrates Have Feelings?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 1, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Just as vertebrates differ greatly in intelligence and sentience, invertebrates may differ greatly too. Read More ›

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Date
May 20, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, chromosomes, cuttlefish, emotion, genomes, intelligence, invertebrates, mammals, memory, mollusks, Nautilus, octopuses, pain, scientists, squid}

Can Largely Rearranged Genomes Explain Why Octopuses Are So Smart?

_{Science & Culture
May 20, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Even compared to each other, the genomes of three cephalopods studied had been broken up and extensively reorganized. Read More ›