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

Contorting, shape-shifting, camouflaging—often all at once—octopuses are as diverse as they are fascinating. Here six octopuses show their stuff. You’re sitting on the seabed, just off the ...

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

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

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 ...

For the first time, marine biologists have measured the energy demands of octopus color changes, revealing that the process ...

On Sept. 20, the New York Times featured the lab for completed research on the hunting mechanism of octopuses. “We wanted to look at arm control in octopuses and see whether there were any rules they ...

Zoologist Professor Tim Coulson suggests that octopuses, with their remarkable intelligence and adaptability, could ...

Watch the Video Click here to watch on YouTube The more scientists study octopuses, the more we learn how fascinating these ...

A pair of biologists at Walla Walla University, in the U.S., have developed a way to calculate the energy costs for certain ...

Octopus filmed firing stones from her siphon from inside a clam shell like a sniper in never-before-seen behavior captured ...

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