With skin that can mimic colors, patterns, and textures, octopuses are the ultimate shapeshifters. They can camouflage ...

University of Oxford professor Tim Coulson told London-based business publication The European that the octopus is one of the ...

For the first time ever, marine biologists have measured how much energy octopuses really need to change color — and it's a ...

The coconut octopus, or Amphioctopus marginatus ... and isn’t the only human-like behavior of this species. It has also been seen walking on two or four tentacles, using its remaining tentacles ...

The more scientists study octopuses, the more we learn how fascinating these creatures really are. Octopuses are incredibly ...

The video shows the octopus using its tentacles to hang on, while its mantle — the sac above its head — is rippled by the ...

Professor Tim Coulson, a professor of Zoology and former head of Biology at Oxford University, has shared his thoughts on ...

The findings are the first to quantify how much work goes into switching on chromatophores, the specialized color-changing ...

They generally eat small crustaceans, such as crabs and shrimp, and can live for about two years. The blue-ringed octopus is not, in fact, one single species. There are two species that are known as ...

In a groundbreaking discovery captured on film for the Netflix series 'Our Oceans,' a coconut octopus has been observed using ...

A California Two Spot Octopus and four hatchlings are joining the more than 3,400 animals and 500 species featured at the zoo ...

The marine invertebrates are said to possess the "physical and mental attributes necessary" to evolve into the next ...