We named him Squirt – not because he was the smallest of the 16 cuttlefish in the pool, but because anyone with the audacity to scoop him into a separate tank to study him was likely to get soaked.

Octopuses are fascinating animals – and serve as important model organisms in neuroscience, cognition research and developmental biology. To gain a deeper understanding of their biology and ...

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, Vol. 152, No. 946, A Discussion on the 'Ear' Under Water (Apr. 26, 1960), pp. 78-87 (11 pages) Octopuses with both statocysts ...

Madako, which means 'common octopus' in Japanese, referred to Octopus vulgaris for over a century, but a study study has found the Japanese common octopus is in fact a different species, Octopus ...

ABSTRACT: The diet of Octopus vulgaris was determined from the remains of 649 prey items gathered from the middens of 38 dens in a small area off the Caribbean island of Bonaire. Remains of 35 species ...

Cephalopods, including octopuses, have exceptionally large and complex nervous systems; the octopod brain is thought to have 37 lobes that control a variety of functions. New research has suggested ...

Liittschwager's response: "I want to see." "That license to stare that photographers have? I've always liked that," David Liittschwager tells NPR. "You're rarely given the permission to really, really ...

A video of an octopus' hiding in plain sight before popping out to spook a diver has gone viral. The video shows a nearly invisible octopus, seamlessly blending in with the seafloor, before turning ...