An octopus’ mouth is hidden underneath the rest of its body, so the cephalopod must rely on taste and touch to pin its struggling victim in the right position.

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 ...

On a mild February morning, Isaac Blanco quickly places half a sardine into each cage as his brother, Julio, steers their ...

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 ...

This means that an octopus’s arms are very different to human limbs, or those of other vertebrates; if anything, Olson says, they are most analogous to the prehensile tails found in some ...

The purple octopus lays fewer, bigger eggs, each the size of a large blueberry. If you lay only 160 eggs, only 160 chances that your young will survive, you must watch over them for as long as you ...