Scientists are studying how the argonaut octopus evolved the ability to produce a floating shell-like structure to care for its offspring. By Sofia Quaglia Argonauta Argo is not a typical octopus.

Argonauta Argo is an octopus but not quite the typical one. Even the sound of its name suggests that it is more intriguing than you would expect. The female species can create a protective shell for ...

Known since Aristotle, no one understood the argonaut octopus—until a 19th-century seamstress turned naturalist took it upon herself to solve its mysteries. A greater argonaut (Argonauta argo) ...

A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that a type of octopus appears to have evolved independently to develop something resembling a shell, ...

SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution) Led by corresponding authors Masa-aki Yoshida from Shimane University and Davin Setiamarga from National Institute of ...

For thousands of years, a fist-sized octopus called the argonaut has baffled scientists. Even Aristotle wondered why this creature wraps its body in a thin “paper nautilus” to swim. Now, video ...