How to pronounce “cephalopod” in English

Cephalopods independently evolved a camera eye.

And cephalopods are sort of with the second group, they're with William James, a sort of individualist style.

The very first cephalopod was made by a shell.

There are ancient cephalopod fossils that grew in corkscrews with spikes that had these weird recurved-- this is sort of a cousin of the paperclip one over here

They're the last cephalopod with an external shell.

So the ancestral cephalopod was related to a snail, which has a big foot that it oozes around on.

So a cephalopod is-- we're looking at the results of the one experiment outside our line in the evolution of a large, really

And so cephalopods literally rose above the competition.

The straight shelled cephalopods are going off of the screen.

straight shelled early cephalopods.

These are ancient cephalopods that lived at around the same time as the dinosaurs with these coiled shells.

to become excited about cephalopods because all of our modern cephalopods-- squid and octopus around us today-- are going through boom times.

The first cephalopods to colonize that area would have been the ones that lost the shell.

And then this curl shelled cephalopod down here is a type of cephalopod called an ammonite that lived much later.

to be a wonderful time for a Cephalopod Renaissance for the extinct cephalopods.

being kind of a huge cephalopod nut.

That there's an ancestral cephalopod trait of having a foot that divides into 10 tentacles.

The most conspicuous similarity between a cephalopod and a vertebrate is the eye.

Dianna Staaf fell in love with cephalopods at the age of 10.

or the first ancestors of cephalopods.

And these tongues of these ancient cephalopods seem to have been really, really complex.

And then in the early coiled cephalopods, all these super weird shapes of ammonoids that proliferated and then went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous.

What kind of memory do the cephalopods have?

A dinosaur leaves-- interestingly, cephalopod fossils are actually way more abundant.

looked like, what the cephalopod dioramas of the deep sea should look like, but there are new ways to look at the fossils.

But all of the soft parts of the cephalopod are totally missing from this kind of fossil.

Let's talk a little bit about the cephalopod brain and the kind of being that these animals are.

She lives in San Jose in the physical world and at cephalopodiatrist.com online.

I am here to talk to you about cephalopods, which is a difficult word to say all by itself.

And the reason that this particular story about cephalopods has caught my attention to the point that I wrote a whole book about it

So I'm going to tell you today why cephalopods are even better than dinosaurs.

And this listing or this possibility of listing cephalopods here is open for public comment.

So I don't think any of the shelled cephalopods could have lived in what we think of as the real abyssal deep sea.

mollusks, including cephalopods, which I'll talk about shortly; arthropods, including insects; then you get things like jelly fish and sponges.

The sort of high contrast pattern on the side facing has a role in various cephalopod behaviors

I think for the most part, cephalopod are a lesson pushing against those highly socialized conceptions of intelligence that are very popular in many theoretical

Researchers in Barcelona had been doing work examining the effects of noise pollution on cephalopods.

Her first book titled "Squid Empire: the Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods," has been named one of the best science books of 2017 by NPR Science Friday.

So I'm here to show you the same thing happening with cephalopods, except they're even better.

And these are all the things that we know and love about cephalopods today.

Now, I have to wonder-- so cephalopods were huge, ancient monsters, they lived before the dinosaurs and through the time of the dinosaurs,

And many, many index fossils are cephalopods or ammonites and the relatives of squid because they're so abundant, they're so diverse, and they're so easily recognized.

What might these ammonites, these ancient cephalopods, have looked like when they were alive?

There is what's been referred to as a global proliferation of cephalopods.

And we are living in a very-- we're very bullish on cephalopods in the oceans these days.

cool as dinosaurs with what's going on currently with the living cephalopods that we have here today.

And meanwhile, all of the other cephalopods, the octopuses, the squid, the cuttlefish, are doing all of their own things.

And by comparing the way we do those things with the way cephalopods do those things, we can really get a holistic understanding.

draw them with tentacles is to show that we know they're cephalopods because that's the defining feature.