The octopus is one of the coolest animals in the sea. For starters, they are invertebrates. That means they don’t have backbones like humans, lions, turtles, and birds. That may sound unusual, but ...

The octopus is known for a number of things: its flexible body, ink squirts, and of course, eight arms. With about 300 species, these cephalopods inhabit every ocean of the world and can be found on ...

Cephalopods, like humans, have camera-like eyes that focus light with a lens. The two-spot octopus gets its name from the ocelli, or iridescent blue spots, which are false eyes to startle predators ...

Octopuses break so many biological expectations that scientists still struggle to explain how they ended up this way through normal evolution. From how their brains work to how their bodies heal, ...

Octopuses are some of the most amazing creatures of the ocean. They are smart, flexible, and can change colour to hide from their predators. While many octopuses are small, some species can grow to ...

Source: Princeton University Press/ Used with permission. Octopuses and other cephalopods are amazing, strange, sentient beings. They have very active social lives and brains—some say octopuses have ...

Octopuses are perhaps the most unusual creatures to have ever inhabited the ocean. Their soft body, eight arms, and high ...

The dozen or so species that make up Grimpoteuthis are called Dumbo octopuses because of the two large fins—one on either side of the mantle—that protrude like ears. Add in the octopus’s small size ...

In case you didn’t know YouTube is amazing! This is especially true if you like weird, funny and amazing animal videos. Case and point: A 17-minute video of an octopus navigating an underwater ...