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

Scientists found four new octopus species, unveiling new insights into deep-sea biodiversity and emphasizing the need for international collaboration in marine conservation. On Tuesday (January 16 ...

The coconut octopus, or Amphioctopus marginatus ... and isn’t the only human-like behavior of this species. It has also been seen walking on two or four tentacles, using its remaining tentacles ...

University of Oxford professor Tim Coulson told London-based business publication The European that the octopus is one of the ...

With skin that can mimic colors, patterns, and textures, octopuses are the ultimate shapeshifters. They can camouflage ...

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

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

The more scientists study octopuses, the more we learn how fascinating these creatures really are. Octopuses are incredibly ...

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

They generally eat small crustaceans, such as crabs and shrimp, and can live for about two years. The blue-ringed octopus is not, in fact, one single species. There are two species that are known as ...

The findings are the first to quantify how much work goes into switching on chromatophores, the specialized color-changing ...