The nine-armed octopus and the oddities of the cephalopod nervous system A mix of autonomous and top-down control manage the octopus's limbs.

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Researchers in New Zealand saw a colorful blob on top of a shark’s head. When they looked closer, they realized it had eight arms.

Researchers off the coast of New Zealand caught a rare sight on camera - an octopus hitching a ride on the back of an ultra-fast shark species.

The OCTOPUS Act would ban farming the animal, and imports of farmed meat. It was introduced by a senator whose office says he learned about the plan through a story on NPR.

Scientists inspired by the octopus's nervous system have developed a robot that can decide how to move or grip objects by sensing its environment.

But it’s hard to beat Phoebe Waller-Bridge in “Octopus!” for pure entertainment, quippery, and a voice that wraps around the brain like a tentacle.

Some English fishermen have hit the jackpot this season, hauling in tons of octopus, but the invasion of the eight-legged molluscs also highlights the threat from marine heat waves. Persistent ...

You can get octopus beer, octopus cookies and octopus jewelry in this northwest town. It's for a good cause.

Barry Young holds up a caught octopus at Brixham Fish Market Some fishermen in south-west England say an "invasion" of octopus and a local bylaw are "decimating" the Devon shellfish industry. The ...

The animal is one of four species of the extremely venomous blue-ringed octopus and is known as a blue-lined octopus due to its non-circular markings.

Is intelligence a human construct? “Octopus!” suggests its time to think differently about animals Seeing ourselves in animals could limit what we find out about them. Not seeing ourselves in ...