Despite its name, the blue-lined octopus (Hapalochlaena fasciata) is also a member of the group. It features iridescent blue lines on its mantle (the muscular structure behind the octopus's head, ...
The video shows the octopus using its tentacles to hang on, while its mantle — the sac above its head — is rippled by the ...
Humans weren’t the only ones who struggled through the bomb cyclone that formed off the B.C. coast this week, bringing ...
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 ...
The stone is clearly marked with the impression of an octopus. It’s not large: In life the animal would have been perhaps 10 inches long. You can trace the mantle—the baglike structure that ...