The short answer is: evolution. Through tens of millions of years, individuals that were better at disguise were more likely to evade predators and leave offspring. And plenty of animals ...

Cephalopod camouflage is among the most dynamic ... of cephalopods can help us understand more about their behavior and evolution, and might also be useful for developing our own camouflaging ...

The findings challenge long-held assumptions about cognitive abilities in marine invertebrates and provide new insights into ...

Understanding how segmentation influences sensorimotor control in cephalopod arms may reveal fundamental principles of neural ...

This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying principle of biology today, is that all species are related to one another like ...

When evolution skeptics want to attack Darwin's theory, they often point to the human eye. How could something so complex, they argue, have developed through random mutations and natural selection ...

Scientists have long known that whole-genome duplication (WGD)—the process by which organisms copy all their genetic material—plays an important role in evolution. But understanding just how ...