An Octopus cyanea hunts with a blacktip grouper on one side and a blue goatfish on the other. Octopuses don’t always hunt alone — but their partners aren’t who you’d expect. A new study shows that ...

When a blanket octopus swims, it creates a kaleidoscope of colors twirling underwater. It’s a rainbow of beauty as it glides through the sea. It’s gorgeous, and it’s almost never seen by humans in ...

In July 2020, a video supposedly showing an octopus moving quickly across a sandy beach went viral on social media: This was not a genuine video of an octopus. It was actually a digital animation ...

"Octopus" is from the Greek. "Octopi" would be the plural if it were Latin. The correct Greek pluralization would be "octopodes" (oct-TUP-oh-deez). However, as one lexicographer put it "the only time ...

How does an animal with no bones (like an octopus) move? Animals without bones are known as invertebrates. The vast majority of animals are invertebrates. Invertebrates typically have fluid-filled ...

While pigs are not yet flying, coconuts are walking and clumps of algae are tiptoeing — sort of. The coconuts and clumps of algae are really octopuses walking on two arms and using their six ...

Octopods, which are also known as octopuses or squid, generally move along the ocean floor with their eight arms, they flee by swimming head-first, in line with the principles of propulsion. When the ...

Aristotle didn’t have a high opinion of the octopus. “The octopus is a stupid creature,” he wrote, “for it will approach a man’s hand if it be lowered in the water.” Twenty-four centuries later, this ...