I, for one, welcome our new cephalopod overlords ... but what are they?
Cephalopods are a weird group of molluscs with an extensive fossil record - except when it comes to octopuses, which remain a bit of a mystery.
Living cephalopods include roughly 1000 species of octopuses, cuttlefish, nautiluses and various distinct groups of “squid”; ram’s horn squid, bobtail squid, bottletail squid, teuthidian squid and the not-even-a-squid vampire squid.
Cephalopods are molluscs, and weird ones at that when compared to the other mollusc groups: chitons, solenogastres, caudofoveatans, bivalves, scaphopods, gastropods and monoplacophorans. With the exception of nautiluses, living cephalopods lack an external shell. They are free-living active hunters, possess a well-developed brain and nervous system in addition to a famed reputation for predicting the outcome of sporting events. Their intelligence has earn
(via I, for one, welcome our new cephalopod overlords ... but what are they? | Science | The Guardian)