Scientists have taught bacteria to make octopus camouflage pigment, ushering in a new era of bio-inspired materials.

The 2021 film "My Octopus Teacher" swept the world with its touching story of a South African man who befriends a wild octopus while free diving in a kelp forest. Millions of filmgoers were charmed ...

Struggling to encourage your students to learn new tunes? Got some crabs handy? Swedish musician and YouTuber Mattias Krantz, ...

While people are generally familiar with how genius octopuses are, there’s always more to learn about the alien creatures’ IQs. In a new clip BBC Earth recently posted to YouTube, we get a glimpse of ...

The octopus is famous for, what else, eight arms, each of which has hundreds of suckers. Scientists have been studying how octopuses control all those weird appendages. It was recently discovered that ...

Past research has revealed that ' the eight legs of an octopus have a group of nerves that control the legs independently of the brain ' and that they have the ability to confirm the 'taste' of what ...