Shaquilla Hamlett

It's been a while since an update. It's been a busy few months, but after some setbacks, in January, the spatial learning training began. Six of the twelve were assumed to be alive. About three oct...

Hi Everyone! It is finally time to start the experiments with the little octo juveniles!Raising hatchlings is a challenging endeavor and unfortunately we've lost 6 of the 12 octopus. We should stil...

Hi Everyone! It has been a busy time in the octopus lab as we work to raise these amazing creatures. A few have unfortunately passed away from unknown causes during the process, but the remaining o...

Hi Everyone! The octopus hatchlings arrived last Thursday! They are tiny (about the size of a pencil eraser) and only about a week and a half old, but are already full of personality. Currently the...

There were some minor setbacks with setting up the aquaria and so our timeline was pushed back some. But the aquariums are up and running and the octopus hatchlings have hatched! The hatchlings wil...

We did it! Thank you so much to everyone who donated and made this project possible! Between this week and next week I am working on getting the aquaria fully up and running. I will continue to up...

Octopus have been introduced to various studies to determine if they possessed long-term vs short-term memory. One well known study looked at an octopus’s ability to open a jar; the time it took fo...

The cephalopod being used for this study is the California two-spotted octopus or Bimac Octopus (Octopus bimaculoides). It is one of two octopuses commonly used in research due to their successful ...

Here is the two different 3-D scans of rocks being used to create the complex environments in the experimental aquaria. They are identical prints of Texas Holey Rocks printed with white PLA (polyla...