This unassuming octopus pairs bacterial chemistry with evolutionary efficiency to deliver one of the most powerful defenses ...

Meet Agnetha, the real octopus who inspired Marcellus's design.

Just like vertebrates, cephalopods — such as octopuses and squid — have elaborate brains. Neuroscientists are flocking to ...

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Researchers at UC San Diego have figured out how to get bacteria to produce xanthommatin, the pigment that lets octopuses and squids camouflage. By linking the pigment’s production to bacterial ...

Pohlsepia mazonensis, a visually underwhelming fossil from Illinois, fundamentally broke our understanding of cephalopod evolution. Described in 2000 and hailed as the oldest known octopus in the ...

A prehistoric fossil previously thought to belong to the world's oldest octopus has been reclassified as something else, after scientists discovered the remains actually belonged to a different type ...

LONDON — A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world’s oldest octopus, after scientists found evidence that it’s not an octopus at all. Newly published research ...

More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world’s oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn’t one at all. A recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal ...

More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world's oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn't one at all. A recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal ...

This octopus survives in plain sight. Here’s how it adapts its body in real time to mirror dangerous species and navigate one ...

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