Off the coast of the UK, fishermen and marine biologists are witnessing something not seen in generations. Sightings of the ...

Rearing the babies will provide scientists with a rare opportunity to learn about the typically deeper-water creatures ...

Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do ...

Last year, speculative fiction author Ray Nayler published "The Mountain in the Sea," his first novel, depicting a not-too-distant future in which humankind is faced with an awe-inspiring (and deeply ...

The findings are the first to quantify how much work goes into switching on chromatophores, the specialized color-changing organs connected to cephalopods’ muscle and nervous systems, which dot the ...

Using mechanisms inspired by nature, Virginia Tech researchers have created a new adhesive based on the shape of octopus suckers. “We’re really interested in trying to grab on quickly, and release ...

A team of molecular and cellular chemists and biologists from Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego, has found that at least one type of octopus has taste sensors on its ...

With eight tentacles, a massive brain, and a surprisingly malleable body composition, octopuses are among the weirdest and most intriguing creatures around. Living at depths of anything from around ...

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Over the last few years, Virginia Tech scientists have been looking to the octopus for inspiration to design technologies that can better grip a wide variety of objects in underwater environments.

Atlantis is almost certainly a mythical land that never truly existed. But the same cannot be said for Octlantis. This underwater ‘city’, originally discovered back in 2009, lies off the coast of ...

The study is the first to relate arm movements in octopuses in the wild to whole animal behaviors in complex, real-world settings. Octopuses are among the most neurologically complex invertebrates, ...