Learn how specialized sensory cells and 500 million neurons help octopuses recognize mates and reproduce through touch alone.

Sensory organ in male cephalopod able to detect female hormone progesterone, even if male cannot see partner ...

Scientists found that the male’s hectocotylus, the specialized arm for mating, is lined with receptors that can sense ...

How do octopuses mate in the dark? A new study shows how the hectocotylus arm uses progesterone receptors to "taste" for a mate.

In lieu of a penis, the male has a special mating arm called a hectocotylus. In a new study published today in Science, ...

To test their ideas, scientists observed California two-spot octopuses in tanks. They placed males and females on opposite ...

A new study by Harvard biologists reveals how octopuses feel their way to potential mates with a "taste by touch" sensory ...

When the scientists paired two male octopuses in the same setup, the males interacted by touching arms, but they never ...

The specialized arm that male octopuses use for mating is also a sensory organ that can detect the ovarian hormone progesterone, according to new experiments conducted by Pablo Villar and colleagues.

The hectocotylus is both a reproductive and sensory organ, Harvard scientists and others have found. Octopuses are some of ...