With the plan to roll out smart prepaid electricity meters in Gautam Budh Nagar, the power department has begun issuing detailed clarifications on how the new system will impact billing, consumption ...

Three hearts; blue blood; no skeleton; arms like tongues. These are just some of the alien features of octopuses, squid and cuttlefish — members of the cephalopod family. The outlandish list continues ...

The City’s Water and Sanitation Directorate has made significant progress in technologically advanced water management with the installation of its first smart meter in Bellville, Cape Town. This ...

Smart meters are already standard in homes across England, Scotland, Wales as well as the Republic of Ireland but one place is yet to install them – Northern Ireland. Smart electricity meters will be ...

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods — such as octopuses and squid — have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to them for insights into how intelligence evolved. Three hearts; blue blood; no ...

The late Cretaceous marine food web may have had a terrifying kraken-like creature among its top ranks. A new analysis of ancient octopus jaws suggests that many of the animals were bone-crunching ...

A giant octopus, likened to a mythical creature said to be capable of dragging ships to their doom, roamed the seas during the age of the dinosaurs, according to researchers. Fossils of its jaw ...

While dinosaurs ruled the land, Cretaceous oceans were home to a fierce and enormous octopus species that may have reached up to 19 metres in length, rivalling the size of the largest predators of the ...

Giant octopuses may have ruled the ancient oceans 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed, according to new research. Some of the earliest octopuses are believed to have been powerful predators ...

More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world’s oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn’t one at all. A recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal ...