Amazon Prime Video's "Octopus!" is a two-part documentary special narrated by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, premiering May 8 Prime Video/YouTube Octopuses are amassing fans for their quirky ways. The ...

This means that an octopus’s arms are very different to human limbs, or those of other vertebrates; if anything, Olson says, they are most analogous to the prehensile tails found in some ...

This gives the octopus an enormous range of possible movements; also, each arm can be doing something different. An octopus on the hunt can thus be an impressive sight.

As the seasons change, octopuses rewire their brains to adapt to fluctuating ocean temperatures, a new study finds. Octopuses and other cephalopods are cold-blooded, or ectothermic, meaning they ...

An octopus patrols a shallow reef, searching for food–and it’s not alone. A flurry of fish move alongside it, in a group hunting phenomenon observed in multiple marine locations around the world.