The octopus's venom contains a compound that has been shown to slow cancer growth. Photo of the Australian Southern sand octopus crawling along the seabed. DayDream TV/QIMR Berghofer MRI ...

The sand octopus has a rather different technique – it actively digs deeper though the soft sand and constructs an actual subsurface burrow, says Jasper Montana of the University of Melbourne.

A sand octopus is seen wriggling its tentacles to create a 20-centimeter burrow in the ocean floor at Port Phillip Bay, Australia. It uses a funnel to shoot jets of water into the sand to create a ...

If you need more proof that the octopus is absolutely the super villain of the sea, check out this gnarly superpower that allows the southern sand octopus. Skip to content Search . Home; ...

Watch a stunning octopus squeeze itself into a tiny hole in the sand and disappear. I'd never guess that a creature as large as this Octopus could fit through such a narrow opening. Next time I ...

The crinkly form of a small, dried octopus lay on a desk in Washington, D.C., 170 years ago. The curious cephalopod, which had been collected more than 7,000 kilometers away in Brazil, was one of ...

The crinkly form of a small, dried octopus lay on a desk in Washington, DC, 170 years ago. The curious cephalopod, collected more than 7,000 kilometers away in Brazil, was one of thousands of ...

In another episode of “Cephalopods are Basically the Most Amazing Creatures on Earth,” today we get an inside look at the burrowing habits of the southern sand octopus, the pressurized hose of ...

An octopus. In particular, ... Most clamber around on corals, mud, or sand, swimming only to get from A to B or to escape from a predator, but a few have taken to cruising the ocean currents.

For the first time, researchers have observed the famously brainy cephalopods deliberately hurling clumps of sand, bits of algae and even shells at each other, though they don't actually toss with ...