This predator can dramatically increase its reach by wielding several stinging tentacles in addition to its 8 arms. Managing multiple stinging tentacles at once presents a unique coordination ...

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 ...

Octopuses have captured the human imagination for centuries, inspiring sagas of sea monsters from Scandinavian kraken legends to TV's "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and, most recently, Netflix's ...

Blanket octopuses live in warm oceans across the globe, usually far from shore and far from the sea floor. They belong to the genus Tremoctopus and spend their entire lives in the pelagic zone, where ...