As his last act, the small but mighty paterfamilias gives an arm and a life to the cause of reproduction. This species of octopus is also known as the paper nautilus (the shell it builds to hold ...

When Spanish company Nueva Pescanova announced in 2019 that it had achieved the unfeasible by cracking octopus reproduction in aquaculture, many hailed the news as a scientific breakthrough.

Blanket octopus pairs are some of the undersea world’s oddest couples. What’s so startling is the size difference: Males are about the size of a walnut—less than an inch long—but some ...

The ability of Octopus tetricus to throw debris at other ... which are crucial for their survival and reproduction. This Nature Research Intelligence Topic summary is one of 30,000 created with ...

The octopus is a mollusk ... surviving species represent successful solutions to the problems of survival and reproduction.