A video shows an octopus appearing to wake up from sleep in distress. The behaviour looked similar to waking up from a nightmare, scientists said. The findings raise questions about the possibility of ...

A Texas mom is concerned after she says an octopus at the San Antonio Aquarium left bruises on her 6-year-old son’s arm. According to the mother, Britney Taryn, her son has been visiting the aquarium ...

An octopus wraps around a diver’s leg during this dive. The contact is unexpected and firm. Movement slows to prevent distress. Octopus behavior is exploratory, not hostile. The moment requires ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Humans may be right-handed or left-handed. It turns out octopuses don't have a dominant arm, but they do tend to perform some tasks more often with their front arms, new research ...

Research showed that all eight arms of an octopus are capable of performing any task their cephalopod owner wishes, but some arms are favored for certain tasks. A detailed analysis suggests that all ...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Octopus arms are one of the most flexible structures known in all of the biological world. Their agility is so extraordinary that robotics researchers want to learn the secrets ...

Scientists studying the behavior of wild octopuses off the coast of Australia have made a strange discovery, with the creatures caught hurling silt, algae and even shells at one another. The finding ...

They flirt, hold hands and guard their lovers jealously — yet they don't even have bones. The love lives of octopuses are far more complex than anyone thought, a team at the University of California, ...

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking AI inspired by the navigational skills of a sea slug and the episodic memory of an octopus. This new approach utilizes basic associative learning rules ...