In a delightful encounter along a beach in Wales, marine enthusiasts were treated to a rare sighting of a curled octopus. The captivating footage, captured by Ciara Taylor, a project assistant for the ...

Some living organisms feature an unusual muscle structure, which allows them to control the stiffness of their body, or various parts of it. Examples include elephants' trunks, our tongues, and ...

There are few artists who would consider the octopus stellar material. They’re often used in illustration either as something terrifying or sinister, not in serious art. Ed Kerns, a Lafayette College ...

Octopus arms are laced with a special chemical that stops their hundreds of suckers sticking to themselves, researchers have found, allowing their flexible limbs to act semi-autonomously in ways that ...

Hollywood movies have used giant squids and octopi to inspire underwater nightmares for decades. But Festo, a German company that makes industrial machinery, has realized that an octopus’ amazing ...

Read full article: How the Florida Aquarium feeds 8,000 animals a day An octopus at The Florida Aquarium in Tampa channeled its inner Jackson Pollock when it used its tentacles to smear some paint on ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon resident Ilyse Sheppard shared these photos of some large octopus tentacles that recently washed ashore on the Oregon Coast. The gangly tentacles, which washed up on the ...

Engineers have developed a new type of glove, inspired by an octopus’s tentacles, that allows the wearer to simply hover their hand over an object to grip it. The “Octa-glove” can tightly grip objects ...