Why certain octopuses are among the deadliest creatures in the sea.

Octopus mothers slam themselves against rocks and eat their own arms before their eggs hatch. Scientists have discovered what leads to the self-destruction.

If your bento boxes are maxed out on Hello Kitty rice balls and veggie flowers, maybe add some adorable hot dog octopuses to ...

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

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

Different types of cephalopods have different concentrations of chromatophores. Shallow water octopuses like the species used in the study (Octopus rubescens) have about 230 chromatophores per ...

Octopuses expend the same amount of energy activating their color-changing system as they do maintaining all other aspects of their resting metabolic rate, including digestion, respiration ...

Professor Tim Coulson, a leading zoologist and biologist at the University of Oxford, suggested that octopuses could evolve into the next civilization-builders if humanity were to become extinct.

Zoologist Professor Tim Coulson suggests that octopuses, with their remarkable intelligence and adaptability, could potentially become Earth's dominant species if humans were to disappear.

Also, the octopuses use their siphons to clear debris, but when they seem to launch materials at each other, they move their siphon under the web of their arms before blowing water out.

We could learn a lot from the octopus, says columnist Melissa Todd, who believes the clever, curious and creative creature ...

Octopuses expend the same amount of energy activating their color-changing system as they do maintaining all other aspects of their resting metabolic rate, including digestion, respiration, organ ...