What animal has blue blood, three hearts and can change color and shape within three-tenths of a second? The same animal has venom like a snake, a beak like a parrot and ink like a pen. It is an ...

The algae octopus (Abdopus aculeatus), also called the prickly octopus, lives in the Indo-West Pacific. Despite its modest size — its mantle (main body) is only 3 inches long with arms stretching up ...

The octopus certainly does look strange, with bugged-out eyes, suction-cup tentacles, and the ability to change color for camouflage. But a new paper in a peer-reviewed scientific journal posits that ...

Biologists have re-discovered a specie Octopus bimaculoides that shares some of our social and mating habits. Photo: AP/Roy L. Caldwell Washington: Scientists have for the first time sequenced the ...

On certain remote shores in northern Australia, the line between sea and land is not as firm as it looks. When the tide drains away, a small, mottled octopus hauls itself out of the shallows and ...

Scientists claim a new map of the octopus genetic code has revealed a creature so strange that it could be an "alien". The creatures have a hugely complicated genome sequence, and have more ...

Some scientists have already made the argument that octopuses might be aliens. While the claim seems a bit out of this world, new research into their brains continues to show just how alien the ...

We don’t know if androids dream of electric sheep, but whatever octopuses dream of must be something adventurous because they change color a lot while they’re sleeping. And while the octopus in the ...