Intriguing and incredibly unique, Octopuses are cephalopods with three hearts that pump blue blood throughout their eight tentacles. These intelligent sea creatures have multiple brains. Nine, to be ...

The eldritch, alien movements of octopus arms have captivated people for generations. These underwater cephalopods don't have just one brain but nine, with each of their arms able to act semi ...

With the new 3D maps, they can make realistic predictions about what's happening inside an octopus arm to create these responses. There are also a lot of evolutionary questions Crook's lab is ...

This provides each arm with a degree of autonomy, allowing an octopus to use some arms to perform one task while also carrying out another, entirely different activity with other arms.

Cephalopod suction was previously thought to be a product of these creatures’ soft, flexible bodies, which can deform easily ...

The giant Pacific octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini, is, as its name suggests, gigantic. Each arm of a large individual can be 6.5 feet long, and the whole animal can weigh more than 200 pounds.

Octopuses have more than one heart and they're not the only animal that does. Here's how many hearts squids and octopuses have and why they need them.

Now, in a new study published on November 28 in Current Biology, Hale and her colleagues have described something new and totally unexpected about the octopus nervous system: a structure by which the ...

They examined the octopuses' intramuscular nerve cords: key pieces of invertebrate anatomy that contain multiple types of neurons and contribute to whole-arm movement.

Artist's rendering of a natural octopus arm and a synthetic arm with octopus-inspired sensorized adhesives from the lab of Michael Bartlett. Virginia Tech Demonstrating the wearable OctaGlove.

(non-Flash) In this interactive feature, explore the anatomy of a cuttlefish and learn how this animal gained its reputation of being a master of disguise and deception./ ...

Dubbed E-SOAM (or electronics-integrated soft octopus arm), the new invention is described by its creators as using a "bending-elongation propagation model to move, reach and grasp in a simple but ...