The Amazing Cephalopoda Class

Meet the cuttlefish, one of the brainiest, most bizarre animals in the ocean.

Cuttlefish skin that reacts to light may hold key to making better camouflage … (read more)

"An analysis of tissue samples from 43 giant squid (Architeuthis spp.) from around the world... mostly from dead squid that had been found washed up on beaches or floating on the ocean surface, although a few came from animals that were accidentally caught by deep-sea trawlers... (revealed) the mitochondrial DNA of the creatures, irrespective of where they came from — be it be it California, Japan, South Africa, New Zealand or somewhere else — ... (to be) genetically very similar." ...(read more)

COMPLETE FOOTAGE Live Giant Squid Caught on Camera (2013)

During experiments on the axons of the Woods Hole squid (loligo pealei), music was tested on the squid's chromatophores. The results were both interesting and beautiful. 

Giant squid filmed in Pacific depths, scientists in Japan report...(read more)

Additionally, here is a video:  http://www.arkive.org/north-pacific-giant-octopus/enteroctopus-dofleini/video-16.html#utm_source=social-network&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=species-north-pacific-giant-octopus

The "privileged state of subjective awareness in fact goes well beyond Homo sapiens, according to the new Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness (pdf), which was signed last month by a group of cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, neuroanatomists, neuropharmacologists, neurophysiologists who attended the Francis Crick Memorial Conference on Consciousness in Human and non-Human Animals at Cambridge University in the U.K...." (click here to read more)

Jacques Cousteau