The Carnarvon Flapjack Octopus is a small, soft-bodied deep-sea species that reaches about 4 centimeters across. A new species of flapjack octopus, distinguished by its giant eyes and striking ...

Octopuses are survival experts! They can hide in secret dens, change their skin to blend in, and even shoot ink to trick predators. Other animals in the ocean have their own clever tricks, too, like ...

Scientific breakthroughs often emerge from unexpected and unlikely places. The development of penicillin was an accident, ...

News of the approaching demise of Ghost, a giant Pacific octopus at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, prompted an ...

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 ...

The octopus is having its moment, and for good reason: According to recent research—laid out so vividly in the National Geographic documentary “Secrets of the Octopus”—the eight-legged cephalopod is ...