A mating pair of wild Octopus americanus, one displaying the arm action “raise.” A new study of octopuses in the wild found that all eight arms can do multiple actions, but their front arms are ...

Hindu deities' multiple arms symbolize divine capacity, not physical form. These arms represent shakti, the ability to act on multiple levels of reality simultaneously, holding various strengths and ...

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, ...

If you have ever seen a Hindu god in a temple or painting, one question naturally arises. Why so many arms? Four, eight, ten, sometimes more. To the modern mind, this may seem mythical. In Hindu ...