Octopuses can transform their skin into a flawless copy of nearly any texture or color in milliseconds, yet they cannot see ...

An octopus is built on a body plan so unlike a human’s that it can seem almost alien. It pumps blue blood with three separate ...

The coconut octopus carries its home across the seafloor in one of the strangest ways imaginable, leaving itself completely ...

The octopus is a biological oddity. It can use tools, open jars, and its complex nervous system supports as many neurons as a ...

A newly discovered change in ribosomal RNA makes protein production more precise, potentially safeguarding these cephalopods’ ...

For an octopus, almost any arm will do. New research published Thursday shows that octopuses have the ability to use any of their eight limbs to perform tasks like reaching, tiptoeing or grasping.

A female octopus throws debris that hits a male attempting to mate with her. The material thrown is silt, vigor is high, and thrower’s coloration pattern is dark uniform. Credit: Godfrey-Smith et al., ...

Now, scientists have discovered that the California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides) can also learn to use mirrors, researchers report June 3 in Current Biology. When brainstorming octopus ...

The octopus just revealed another one of its secrets: what determines its sex. University of Oregon researchers have identified a sex chromosome in the California two-spot octopus. This chromosome has ...

The underwater cameras got it all: The octopuses emerged from a cluttered bed of empty shells, arms unfurling like ribbons. Then, suddenly, a cloud of debris came spewing out from underneath their ...

Plans for the world's first octopus farm have been abandoned. As the controversial project folds, several nations and US states are banning octopus farming before it even begins.