Octopuses Can Disappear Right Before Your Eyes: Here’s The Incredible Science Behind Their Powers

The octopus rarely stays the same shape or color for long. In the wild, its ability to disappear against a shimmering coral ...

Why Do Octopuses Remind Us So Much of Ourselves?

They change shape and color, and squirt ink. But they also will return your gaze, "as if they're scrutinizing you." ...
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Octopuses learned to use a mirror to find food they could not see

Three California two-spot octopuses in a Dartmouth College lab learned to turn away from a mirror, not toward it, in order to ...
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Octopuses change color in milliseconds, even though they’re colorblind

Octopuses can flip from mottled rock to smooth sand in less time than it takes a human to blink, yet their eyes carry only a single visual pigment that should make them functionally colorblind. The ...

An Octopus Escapes From Its Aquarium: The Way It Made It Back To The Ocean Is Incredible

When Inky the octopus squeezed through a drain pipe and vanished into the ocean, he exposed something uncomfortable about how humans see these blue-blooded, three-hearted creatures with minds unlike ...
AZ Animals

The Octopus That Builds Mobile Homes from Coconut Shells

The coconut octopus has solved a problem that stumps most soft-bodied ocean creatures: how to survive on a wide-open, ...
ZME Science

Photographer Captures Octopus Riding a Rarely Seen Dolphin Off the UK Coast

Credit: Bill Coulson, Risso’s Dolphin Project South West volunteer, courtesy of the Marine Biological Association. At first ...
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Octopuses Torture And Eat Themselves After Mating, And Scientists Finally Know Why

Nature is made up of some amazing and intriguing creatures. Perhaps one of the most intriguing is the octopus. Some even believe they could be aliens. One mystery that has long evaded scientists is ...
Phys.org

Octopuses have some of the oldest known sex chromosomes, study finds

The octopus just revealed another one of its secrets: what determines its sex. University of Oregon researchers have identified a sex chromosome in the California two-spot octopus. This chromosome has ...
Newsweek

Underwater Allies: Octopuses and Fish Join Forces to Hunt for Prey

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The research shows how octopuses and multiple fish species work ...
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Everyone Has an Octopus Opinion

The underwater cameras got it all: The octopuses emerged from a cluttered bed of empty shells, arms unfurling like ribbons. Then, suddenly, a cloud of debris came spewing out from underneath their ...
Ars Technica

Take that! Octopuses caught on camera vigorously throwing debris at each other

A female octopus throws debris that hits a male attempting to mate with her. The material thrown is silt, vigor is high, and thrower’s coloration pattern is dark uniform. Credit: Godfrey-Smith et al., ...