Octopuses are washing up on the shores of Texas amid a bout of cold weather. Cold water temperatures can slow down an octopus ...

Octopuses tend to catch your attention the moment you learn anything real about them. They don’t fit the neat biological patterns most animals follow, and that’s precisely what makes them so ...

Octopuses already exist in a strange corner of the animal world, with soft bodies, problem-solving brains, and the ability to change color in a blink. Even within that group, a handful of species push ...

In a study that has yet to be peer-reviewed, scientists documented behavior in a captive cephalopod that they say looks very similar to a bad dream. By Carolyn Wilke Costello the octopus was napping ...