A soft robotic arm, based on an octopus arm, might be able to get food, water or a cell phone down to someone trapped under ...

A new species of deep-sea octopus with enormous eyes. Opisthoteuthis carnarvonensis, the Carnarvon flapjack octopus, was found in Australia.

JENKS, Okla. — Oklahoma Aquarium in Jenks has announced the passing of their giant Pacific octopus (GPO). In a Facebook post, ...

Octopuses and their arms are a bit of a mystery.  Not because scientists don’t know how they work; they’re boneless hydrostats, made up of groups of muscles working together and capable of bending, ...

Anyone with a paltry two arms is probably familiar with handedness, our predisposition to use either the left or right hand for particular tasks. (No ambidexterity erasure intended; you are valid!) ...

Researchers studied octopuses in the wild to learn whether they favor one of their eight arms over the others for certain jobs, but found the creatures give new meaning to ambidextrous.

Research showed that all eight arms of an octopus are capable of performing any task their cephalopod owner wishes, but some ...

Mother Nature doesn't always play by the rules... Sometimes she flips the script, hits Caps Lock and produces something so ...

Octopuses are ambidextrous, a new study finds, but they favor their front arms for investigating surroundings and their back arms for locomotion.

If China were to attack Taiwan, it may well also bring the fight directly to the U.S., with a long list of potentially ...

On a recent flight from Faro to Luton with easyJet, I couldn't sit comfortably in my seat due to the large size of the ...

Octopuses: enigmatic, alienlike, highly intelligent. Biologists in Japan have now demonstrated that the cephalopods are self-aware and possess a sense of body ownership – all thanks to a tentacle made ...