World Octopus Day reveals how intelligent, adaptable, and important octopuses are to our planet’s oceans today.

On World Octopus Day, researchers are revealing how this blue-blooded marvel could unlock breakthroughs in robotics, medicine ...

Experiments have shown that octopuses can unscrew jars, open containers and navigate mazes, often displaying behaviours that ...

Octopus arms are one of the most flexible structures known in all of the biological world. Their agility is so extraordinary that robotics researchers want to learn the secrets behind their movements, ...

Rebecca Senn, a graduate student, said she found the bottle containing the Giant Pacific octopus, but she didn’t realize it wasn’t a ruby octopus until later. Underwater, she could only really see ...

Octopuses are among the most fascinating and intelligent creatures of the ocean. Known for their incredible problem-solving ...

Octopuses are mostly made up of sucker-studded arms, each one packed with muscles and nerves that enable them to engage with their environment in ways no other invertebrate has mastered. But how ...

The octopuses in question are the Australian southern sand octopus and the common octopus, the same species featured in Netflix's Oscar award-winning documentary "My Octopus Teacher." Compounds in ...

For years, scientists have been fascinated by the way octopuses move — fluid, flexible and without the limitations of bones. But observing these complex motions in the extreme conditions of the deep ...

While humans typically favour a dominant hand, new research reveals that octopuses, despite lacking a single dominant arm, show a clear preference for using their front limbs for certain activities.