An octopus invited this writer into her tank—and her secret world. In an excerpt from the new book Secrets of the Octopus, an animal lover offers insight into this “strange, beautiful, curious ...

It’s not uncommon, for example, to see an octopus using several arms to move itself across the ocean floor while cracking open a shell with two others. Each arm can also react independently to ...

The dumbo octopus is thought to use the hair-like cirri on its arms to waft food towards its mouth. This limits what the Dumbo octopus can eat, with them only consuming organisms up to 1-2 millimetres ...

The octopus doesn’t always win. In a third video, taken in 2023 near Galicia again, the conger eel grabbed the cephalopod from the head, then spins the octopus around in a death hold, slamming ...