Someone's thrash is another one's treasure - this old saying has an entirely different meaning for an octopus.

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The elephant's trunk has long been studied by engineers seeking to understand how it performs both powerful and delicate ...

SEA LIFE Charlotte-Concord in Concord, North Carolina solves that problem with style. Looking up through the tunnel feels ...

Now, scientists have discovered that the California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides) can also learn to use mirrors, ...

Robots exploring the ocean floor today use pre-programmed movements, centralized processors, and rigid structures to do their work. But the sea is unpredictable, and that architecture struggles ...

Researchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Italy have developed a soft robotic arm inspired by the octopus, capable of autonomously grasping and sensing objects in both air and underwater ...

Squid, cuttlefish, octopus and other cephalopods will now be included within the regulatory definition of shellfish.

While on a deep-sea expedition in the Galapagos in 2015, scientists found a golf-ball sized, short-armed blue octopus. In a recent study, they confirmed that it’s new to science. The newly described ...

VFX supervisor Chris Ritvo knows a thing or two about creating animals in CG. He had worked with director Olivia Newman on "Where the Crawdads Sing,” for which he created CG birds. Ritvo was faced ...

Scientists recently uncovered fossilized jawbones of Nanaimoteuthis haggarti – a massive, kraken-like octopus that roamed Earth about 72 million years ago.According to a recent study published in the ...

Researchers at iC3 have found a way to improve records of past high latitude ocean change using tiny plankton shells called foraminifera. By growing these foraminifera under controlled cold-water ...