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 ...

In June 2025, the SciFri Book Club read Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses by David Scheel. Luckily, there is also a young readers edition, so you can learn about these amazing ...

With eight tentacles, a massive brain, and a surprisingly malleable body composition, octopuses are among the weirdest and most intriguing creatures around. Living at depths of anything from around ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Scientists have discovered at least four new species of octopus in the deep waters of a 100-square-mile area near Costa Rica, officials from the Schmidt Ocean Institute said on Tuesday. An ...

The cephalopods were found near a small outcrop of rock called El Dorado Hill. Scientists have discovered at least four new species of octopus in the deep waters of a 100-square-mile area near Costa ...

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, ...

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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 ...