Camouflage isn't the only way cephalopods have evolved to change their appearance. Octopuses and other cephalopods make the fastest transformations in the animal kingdom. Here, a giant Pacific octopus ...

Few animals in the ocean look, move or function quite like the octopus, a soft-bodied invertebrate whose internal machinery is almost as strange as its shape-shifting exterior. Beneath that boneless, ...

An octopus doesn’t get a second chance when a shark or dolphin is nearby. With no shell for protection, this soft-bodied escape artist has to disappear before a hungry predator spots it. Watch the ...

Traditionally, when taxonomists examine a potentially new species of octopus, they dissect them, an approach that is highly invasive and nearly destroys the specimen. Alexander Ziegler Hidden in the ...

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