This octopus can brood its eggs for nearly four years without eating. Here’s how this biological extreme has reshaped how ...

Octopuses can solve puzzles, learn quickly, and sometimes act like they are just messing with us. Now, researchers say the roots of that intelligence may be hiding in something tiny and surprisingly ...

Octopuses may have big brains because of environmental – not social – factors. Large brains in mammals are generally thought to be linked to social behaviour, an idea known as the social brain ...

Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do the same. Cephalopods like the giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) ...

Great leadership doesn’t just happen in boardrooms or business settings. From little league coaching and community initiatives to family moments and encounters with service providers, powerful ...

Inspired by the color-changing ability of cephalopods such as octopi and squid, University of Nebraska–Lincoln researchers are developing a material that could one day be used in sensors and soft ...

3 Deaf or Nearly Deaf Animals 3 Animals Without Ears What Is an Animal with Congenital Deafne... Hearing is one of an animal’s most important skills in the wild for survival. Unfortunately, not all ...

Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have developed a new deep-sea camera system that captures their clearest look at octopus movement in the ocean’s darkest depths. New ...

Nautiloids—a lineage of ancient, externally-shelled cephalopods that diverged from their octopus and squid relatives over 400 million years ago—once dominated our oceans. Today, this living fossil is ...

Flexible synthetic skins use hydrogel arrays to mimic cephalopod camouflage through autonomous color and pattern shifts for soft robotics and wearables. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Efforts to mimic the ...