The octopus is one of the most extreme animals on Earth. Its biology looks more like science fiction than natural evolution.

Scientists have unveiled a synthetic skin inspired by octopus camouflage that is capable of changing colour and texture, opening up potential uses from robotics to display technologies. Researchers ...

Prepare to be AMAZED by this viral video of an octopus solving a maze. Sashimi the Octopus even shocked his owner, Mark Rober ...

Compared with the arms of an octopus, our own bony limbs are about as flexible as old tree branches. It stands to reason that the anatomy within the cephalopod's sucker-speckled appendages ought to be ...

The octopus just revealed another one of its secrets: what determines its sex. University of Oregon researchers have identified a sex chromosome in the California two-spot octopus. This chromosome has ...