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 ...

On certain remote shores in northern Australia, the line between sea and land is not as firm as it looks. When the tide drains away, a small, mottled octopus hauls itself out of the shallows and ...

This octopus behavior might look funny at first glance, but it reveals how evolution solves complex problems in unexpected ways.

The elusive 'vampire squid from hell' has just yielded the largest cephalopod genome ever sequenced, a monster clocking in at more than 11 billion base pairs – more than twice as large as the biggest ...

The octopus is one of the smartest creatures alive on earth today—and they have tons of strange and amazing adaptations that ...

Octopuses have a few characteristics that make them stand out as one of the most intelligent mollusks in the ocean. These slippery, strange ocean creatures, characterized by their large craniums and ...

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