who keeps it in the mantle cavity until needed for fertilization. When it’s time, the octopus lays upwards of 100,000 eggs, then retrieves the hectocotylus and spreads the sperm out over the egg ...

The video shows the octopus using its tentacles to hang on, while its mantle — the sac above its head — is rippled by the ...

The dozen or so species that make up Grimpoteuthis are called Dumbo octopuses because of the two large fins—one on either side of the mantle—that protrude like ears. Add in the octopus’s ...

Transparent body tissues camouflage this tiny octopus. Along its arms are orange founder chromatophores – early stages of the pigment-containing cells that enable adult octopuses to change colour. The ...

Humans weren’t the only ones who struggled through the bomb cyclone that formed off the B.C. coast this week, bringing ...