There is no prototypical octopus, just as there is no prototypical dog. A new book explains how these alien, blue-blooded, ...

One city was built around a human-made scrap of metal whereas the other lingered in the natural setting of a rocky outcrop ...

A group of researchers recently made a surprising discovery while studying videos they captured of octopuses hunting off the coast of Israel. The 120 hours of footage they shot revealed that the big ...

Octopuses are smart. Like, gather a posse of fish to do their hunting for them smart. And when the fish step out of line, the ...

Octopuses have a parrot-like beak, which is the only hard part of their body. The plural of octopus is "octopuses" or "octopi," according to Merriam-Webster . Some people also say "octopodes." ...

Octopuses are amazing beings who are receiving increasing attention in scientific and popular press because they are so different from us and many other nonhuman animals (animals). I find it ...

Cephalopods may have the oldest sex chromosomes of any animal, according to a new discovery in the octopus genome.

This chromosome has likely been around for 480 million years, since before octopuses split apart from the nautilus on the evolutionary tree. That makes it one of the oldest known animal sex ...

This chromosome has likely been around for 480 million years, since before octopuses split apart from the nautilus on the evolutionary tree. That makes it one of the oldest known animal sex ...

University of Oregon researchers have identified a sex chromosome in the California two-spot octopus. This chromosome has likely been around for 480 million years, since before octopuses split apart ...

Octopuses have nine brains, use tools, have the ability to recognize people and are so bright and brilliant it’d be cruel to farm them for human consumption. So said a stream of octopus ...

SHELLFISH catch in Jersey and Guernsey is being hampered by increasing numbers of octopuses in local waters which are doing ...