This story was originally broadcast January 12, 2020. It's one of the most bizarre creatures on Earth, and not just because it looks so different. The octopus can camouflage itself in a flash ...

Octopuses have many amazing abilities and characteristics; they have huge brains and can solve puzzles; their ink can ...

For starters, the DNA of an octopus contains nearly 10,000 more gene codes than that of a human. Various clusters of these gene codes perform different tasks—and octopus genes are specially ...

Amazon Prime Video's "Octopus!" is a two-part documentary special narrated by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, premiering May 8 Prime Video/YouTube Octopuses are amassing fans for their quirky ways. The ...

An octopus, having no skeleton, has no such constraint. It can, and frequently does, roll up some of its arms; or it can choose to make one (or several) of them stiff, creating an elbow.

This means that an octopus’s arms are very different to human limbs, or those of other vertebrates; if anything, Olson says, they are most analogous to the prehensile tails found in some ...

Two years ago, a PBS documentary video showed an octopus named Heidi in what appeared to be an active dream state. Her arms twitched as she slumbered, and her skin flipped wildly through all sorts ...

Scientists have finally answered a question that has confounded mankind for ages: What happens if you get an octopus high on ecstasy and introduce it to Chewbacca. Johns Hopkins University School ...

"Each octopus is different. So, when you work this closely with them and you're interacting with them on a regular basis, you build a relationship with them." ...