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 ...

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.

To prevent this, California two-spot octopuses (Octopus bimaculoides) edit their RNA — the messenger molecule between DNA and proteins — to produce different neural proteins in response to ...