Past research has revealed that ' the eight legs of an octopus have a group of nerves that control the legs independently of the brain ' and that they have the ability to confirm the 'taste' of what ...

“A lot of people say an octopus is like an alien,” says filmmaker Craig Foster in his new Netflix documentary “My Octopus Teacher.” “But the strange thing is, as you get closer to them you realize ...

Researchers with the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer included this image of an octopus in its collection of images from a 2013 expedition in the canyons that make up the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts ...

New research identifies a previously unknown type of nerve cell inside octopus suckers that the cephalopods use like taste buds. Lena van Giesen New research reveals a previously unknown type of nerve ...

Imagine if you could taste something simply by touching it. Octopuses can do just that with their unique "touch-taste" sense, made possible by the suction-cup-like suckers along each of their eight ...

Octopuses can taste what their arms touch, and scientists have figured out how. By Katherine J. Wu Should anything ever compel you to lick an octopus’s arm, keep this in mind: That arm has all the ...

Octopuses have many amazing abilities and characteristics; they have huge brains and can solve puzzles; their ink can disguise them and disorient attackers; and their ancestors are thought to be about ...

"A lot of people say an octopus is like an alien," says filmmaker Craig Foster in his new Netflix documentary "My Octopus Teacher." "A lot of people say an octopus is like an alien," says filmmaker ...