While exploring the reef, divers encounter a curious wild octopus that approaches them and interacts in a surprisingly ...

The study is the first to relate arm movements in octopuses in the wild to whole animal behaviors in complex, real-world settings. Octopuses are among the most neurologically complex invertebrates, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Humans may be right-handed or left-handed. It turns out octopuses don't have a dominant arm, but they do tend to perform some tasks more often with their front arms, new research ...

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

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. The octopus is ...

A major seafood company wants to farm octopuses for their meat. Activists and academics say it’s impractical and cruel.

At a humming factory in the Spanish town of O Carballino, workers sling dozens of limp octopuses into a metal cauldron, wincing as strings of slime splatter their aprons. Nearby, others slice ...

NEW ZEALAND -- It's the slap that's being heard around the world, and it came from a seal. GoPro video captured the moment the animal slapped a kayaker across the face with an octopus in the waters ...