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Last month a team of scientists visited an ethereal nursery on the seafloor off Costa Rica, where they watched in awe as a new generation of deep-sea octopuses gently emerged from a quivering cluster ...

Last year, speculative fiction author Ray Nayler published "The Mountain in the Sea," his first novel, depicting a not-too-distant future in which humankind is faced with an awe-inspiring (and deeply ...

A team of molecular and cellular chemists and biologists from Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego, has found that at least one type of octopus has taste sensors on its ...

The findings are the first to quantify how much work goes into switching on chromatophores, the specialized color-changing organs connected to cephalopods’ muscle and nervous systems, which dot the ...

Octopuses are strange creatures, and even after thousands of years of study, the facts that we unravel about these ...

Atlantis is almost certainly a mythical land that never truly existed. But the same cannot be said for Octlantis. This underwater ‘city’, originally discovered back in 2009, lies off the coast of ...

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The study is the first to relate arm movements in octopuses in the wild to whole animal behaviors in complex, real-world settings. Octopuses are among the most neurologically complex invertebrates, ...

Using mechanisms inspired by nature, Virginia Tech researchers have created a new adhesive based on the shape of octopus suckers. “We’re really interested in trying to grab on quickly, and release ...

A rare and adorable octopus has been spotted during a livestream from a deep-sea expedition, delighting the researchers. The creature, known as a dumbo octopus, was caught on camera during an ...