Examining the cephalopod’s sucker structure was key to its creation.

Bans on octopus farming have already been introduced in Washington and California states, and a bipartisan bill has been ...

Blanket octopus pairs are some of the undersea world ... males and females—called sexual size dimorphism—in the animal kingdom. Why the dramatic disparity? It’s not fully known, but ...

How many offspring an animal can have depends on many factors, such as whether they're aquatic and how they get around.

Honeybees and cockroaches, which after cephalopods have a claim to be the planet ... Capricorn night octopus, Callistoctopus alpheus, are cells full of pigment. If the animal were to open ...

By doing so he worked out how to track a hunting octopus and so Blue Planet II cameraman ... shy animals and this took a long time”. One animal in particular, a small female seemed particularly ...

An octopus will work with several different species of fish to find and catch prey - and punch those that aren't helping ...

Currently around one-third of the fish caught around the planet is turned ... octopus is better than octopus caught in the wild. "It's not more ethical at all - the animal is going to be suffering ...

The coconut octopus collects and manipulates shells for protection; such future-oriented tool use is known to occur in only 1 percent of the animal kingdom. Some octopuses will even come to ...

Anybody who lives or works with animals assumes that they are conscious, but that’s not how the science works. Scientists’ ...

The research estimates that a total of at least €13.3 million in public funds has been spent by governments worldwide on research to develop octopus farming and that the Spanish Government has spent ...

Of all the superstar performers, chart-topping bands and mega rock gods I've seen perform at the AO Arena in Manchester over ...