An curved arrow pointing right. With their eight arms and giant egg-shaped head, octopuses are one of the most alien-looking creatures on the planet. We read Katherine Courage's book "Octopus!" ...

Blanket octopus pairs are some of the undersea world’s oddest couples. What’s so startling is the size difference: Males are about the size of a walnut—less than an inch long—but some ...

The dozen or so species that make up Grimpoteuthis are called Dumbo octopuses because of the two large fins—one on either side of the mantle—that protrude like ears. Add in the octopus’s ...

Octopuses have a large nervous system, with the average octopus having about 500 million neurons or brain cells. That puts it in the same “brain range” as smaller mammals such as dogs. Unlike ...

Octopuses are strange creatures, and even after thousands of years of study, the facts that we unravel about these cephalopods continue to amaze us. For instance, researchers discovered that these ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The California two-spot octopus possesses one of the oldest known sex chromosomes, dating back approximately 480 million years, predating the evolutionary split ...

That isn’t the case with the eight-armed octopus. You may already know that the cephalopods can change colors and squeeze through tight spaces, but how do they expel waste? Surprisingly ...

Watching the octopus do this is like watching a magic trick! Here are some octopus facts: – An octopus has three hearts. Two of them pump blood to the gills, and the third pumps it to the rest ...

The new CEO of Octopus Energy US talks about clean power's future amid a hostile political environment, and why renewable ...

Let us dive into the 140 octopi on record and see where the tentacles lead us. Some octopus facts: Rob Moore and Torrence Small scored the first two octopi, on the same day in 1994. Moore and ...

The supplier’s customer base grew to 7.3 million across the UK in its most recent financial year, making it the country’s ...