A new species of deep-sea octopus with enormous eyes. Opisthoteuthis carnarvonensis, the Carnarvon flapjack octopus, was found in Australia.
In the turquoise shallows of the Caribbean and the rocky coasts of Spain, researchers have captured an extraordinary ...
Octopuses are ambidextrous, a new study finds, but they favor their front arms for investigating surroundings and their back arms for locomotion.
Octopuses and their arms are a bit of a mystery.  Not because scientists don’t know how they work; they’re boneless hydrostats, made up of groups of muscles working together and capable of bending, ...
Octopuses and squids are like the misfit cousins of the sea that everyone confuses at family reunions, but once you […] ...
Octopuses are among the most neurologically complex invertebrates, famed for their extraordinary dexterity. Their eight arms ...
It was important to make the rubber arm look like the octopus’s real arm because in the human experiment, the illusion does not occur if the fake hand is shaped differently from the real human hand,” ...
In a study that has yet to be peer-reviewed, scientists documented behavior in a captive cephalopod that they say looks very similar to a bad dream. By Carolyn Wilke Costello the octopus was napping ...