Armed with suction cups that can latch onto prey with serious force, the octopus proves that brains and brawn can go hand in hand—or tentacle in shark. What’s next, an octopus taking on a whale?

Rather than pouncing on its prey, the larger Pacific striped octopus extends a tentacle and taps its victim, startling it into the octopus's deadly embrace. (Video courtesy Roy Caldwell ...

Octopuses are usually considered to be solitary creatures, but new research suggests they might sometimes socialise with fish ...

This underwater alliance between octopus and fish tends to pay off for both. Learn why the relationship works.

Octopus arms move with incredible dexterity ... grasp objects, and capture prey. "If you're going to have a nervous system that's controlling such dynamic movement, that's a good way to set ...

octopuses to explore, move across the seafloor, and manipulate objects, while squids use theirs in open water to grab and hold prey. The researchers found that the architecture of the axial nerve ...

The North Pacific giant octopus is the world's largest octopus. It's almost as big as a car, with an arm span exceeding four ...

and capture prey. Octopus arms move with incredible dexterity, bending, twisting, and curling with nearly infinite degrees of freedom. New research from the University of Chicago revealed that the ...