Blanket octopus pairs are some of the undersea world ... males and females—called sexual size dimorphism—in the animal kingdom. Why the dramatic disparity? It’s not fully known, but ...

Video shared by Ocean Networks Canada at the University of Victoria shows a giant Pacific octopus as it gets knocked around ...

For the first time ever, marine biologists have measured how much energy octopuses really need to change color — and it's a ...

Imagine a creature that has three hearts….Surprised? Well, imagine that it also has nine brains and blue blood. Sounds like ...

Currently around one-third of the fish caught around the planet is turned into feed for other animals - and roughly half of that amount goes into aquaculture. So farmed octopus could be fed on ...

Octopuses are masters of camouflage and disguise. An alarmed octopus can vanish even while you watch, flawlessly transforming ...

It led to them being recognised as "sentient beings" in the UK's Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022. Prof Birch and his co-authors believe that high-welfare octopus farming is "impossible" and ...

Color change is a vital adaptive mechanism for many animals, though it is thought to require significant energy. Now, ...

In a rare behavior for the animal world, this video those octopuses throwing things at each other, launching silt through the water.

“Due to the involvement of the nervous and muscular systems, it is likely that cephalopod color change is one of the most ...

An Oxford University researcher theorizes about the animal that would dominate the Earth if humans became extinct, and points ...

New dentures with octopus-inspired suckers which have twice the sticking power of traditional false teeth have been developed ...