Few animals rearrange basic assumptions about biology as thoroughly as the octopus. It gets by with nine separate brains, ...

Few animals in the ocean look, move or function quite like the octopus, a soft-bodied invertebrate whose internal machinery is almost as strange as its shape-shifting exterior. Beneath that boneless, ...

That means there's a huge part of the ocean, over 95% that are yet to be explored. This leaves a lot of room for fascinating animals that scientists haven't discovered, and the ocean is filled with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Octopus cyanea found in the both Indian and Pacific ocean. It grows to 16 cm in mantle length with arms to atleast 80 cm.© ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Octopuses' oddities run deep—right down to ...

They change shape and color, and squirt ink. But they also will return your gaze, "as if they're scrutinizing you." ...

Blue pigment in the blood of octopuses in Antarctica helps them survive subzero temperatures, a new study finds. The Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica, has temperatures ranging between 28.8 ...