Octopuses can use any of their arms to perform tasks, but tend to use a particular arm, or arms, for specific tasks. This ...

Scientists have discovered that octopuses don't have a dominant arm, but they more often use their front arms for tasks.

Scientists have discovered that octopuses don't have a dominant arm, but they more often use their front arms for tasks ...

Octopuses are fascinating animals – and serve as important model organisms in neuroscience, cognition research and developmental biology. To gain a deeper understanding of their biology and ...

Octopuses aren't eight-handed, so to speak, and instead of using all of their arms equally they prefer certain ones for specific tasks, new research has found. The research, led by marine biologist ...

The nutritional biology of common octopus paralarvae is a rapidly advancing field that integrates physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology. Paralarvae, representing the early, planktonic stage ...

Videos filmed by divers show that choking, blinding and sacrificing limbs are all in the cephalopods’ repertoire. By Joshua Rapp Learn The conger eel was the favorite, weighing at least three times ...

It’s not every day that scientists discover a new species of octopus, but that is exactly what has happened off the coast of western Australia. During a CSIRO research expedition to the Carnarvon ...

Emma Knight’s recent coming-of-age bestseller “The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus” has been set up as a TV series at Amazon’s MGM Television. Based on the book of the same name, the series is ...