Between £6.7 million and £9.4 million worth of common octopus was landed on the south coast of the UK from January to August ...

The giant Pacific octopus is currently the size of an orange. That’s more than seven times the size she was when a resident of Tenakee Springs found her on the beach in August.

Off the south-west coast of the UK, a creature usually glimpsed only by divers and night-fishing crews suddenly became ...

Octopuses have gotten a reputation for being cunning camouflagers and intelligent creatures. But some are known for a more ominous reason: They're deadly. One group — the blue-ringed octopus (genus ...

This octopus behavior might look funny at first glance, but it reveals how evolution solves complex problems in unexpected ways.

Washington — Humans may be right-handed or left-handed. It turns out octopuses don't have a dominant arm, but they do tend to perform some tasks more often with their front arms, new research shows.

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... Untangling The Science of Octopus Arms Octopuses and their ...

Image by LauMarghe The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore, Pisa, Italy CC BY 3.0 Image by LauMarghe The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore, Pisa, Italy CC BY 3.0 Using mechanisms inspired by ...

Put on your party hat and wet suit because it is Cephalopod Week, Science Friday’s annual celebration of all things, octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish. To kick things off, we’re bringing you an ode to ...

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