Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mating pair of wild Octopus americanus, one displaying the arm action “raise.” A new study of octopuses in the wild found that ...

Octopus arms are one of the most flexible structures known in all of the biological world. Their agility is so extraordinary that robotics researchers want to learn the secrets behind their movements, ...

A sketch of what the giant octopus might have looked like [Image: Yohei Utsuki, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, ...

The octopus is a striking creature. Their most defining feature, of course, is their eight arms. A new study of octopuses has now documented exactly how those eight arms are used in the wild.

Octopuses can use any of their arms to perform tasks, but tend to use a particular arm, or arms, for specific tasks. This finding, presented in a paper in Scientific Reports, reveals more about the ...

The California two-spot octopus is a solitary creature. How exactly they manage to find suitable mates has been one of the ocean’s best-kept secrets. Now scientists have discovered that male octopuses ...