In 2020, Bellono's team first reported that octopus use chemotactile receptors in their arms to search and explore their environments. Together, these two new papers provide a basis for understanding ...

SPOILER ALERT: This piece contains spoilers for Netflix’s film adaptation of Shelby Van Pelt’s novel Remarkably Bright Creatures. It took quite a team to assemble everything needed for Marcellus the ...

A recent study by the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) has unveiled new data on the behaviour of argonauts, an enigmatic group of pelagic octopuses that inhabit the ocean’s surface layers. The ...

You probably knew octopuses would show up on this list, the only question was “for which of their superlative attributes?” I decided to stick with an old favorite: octopuses have some of the best ...

The ocean is home to countless fascinating creatures, each uniquely adapted to survive in a challenging environment. Among these, octopuses and crabs often find themselves in conflict, as octopuses ...

Some of the most ingenious tech has been inspired by nature. From color-changing materials that function like cephalopod skin to a tiny biomimetic robot that looks and moves like an actual cockroach, ...