Life in the ocean is perilous, and 78% of the captured octopuses were missing at least one arm due to encounters with ...

For years, this fossil seemed to tell a thrilling story. Here was an animal from more than 300 million years ago that ...

The hectocotylus is both a reproductive organ and a sensory organ, a rare combination in animals, new research suggests ...

To solve this puzzle, Thomas Clements, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester, and his colleagues put this supposed ...

World’s Oldest Octopus. Discover which is the oldest octopus in the world, its lifespan, species, and surprising facts. Learn ...

For mating male octopuses, one limb is more important than all others. That is the third right arm or hectocotylus, which is ...

An octopus-shaped nanomachine hijacks tumor ATP leakage to power a self-amplifying cycle of membrane damage, drug delivery, and metabolic collapse in cancer cells.

Scientific knowledge is constantly updated, revised, or reshuffled as new insights emerge. One particular fossil was thought ...

The mystery of a controversial fossil, once believed to be the oldest known octopus, has finally been resolved. First ...

The story of a 300-million-year-old fossil has been rewritten after scientists discovered that it doesn’t actually belong to ...

Some male octopuses perform one of the most extreme survival strategies in the animal kingdom, they detach their own arm during reproduction. This bizarre behaviour is not self-harm, but a biological ...

A famous 300-million-year-old fossil that was thought to be the world's oldest octopus—even featuring in the Guinness Book of ...