Believing argonauts used their long front tentacles as sails, early naturalists named the cephalopods after the navigators of ...

Blanket octopus pairs are some of the undersea world’s oddest couples. What’s so startling is the size difference: Males are about the size of a walnut—less than an inch long—but some ...

Octopuses are fascinating. Their eight arms gracefully whip through water and can accomplish extraordinary tasks like using ...

News that the world's first commercial octopus farm is closer to becoming reality has been met with dismay by scientists and conservationists. They argue such intelligent "sentient" creatures ...

Using mechanisms inspired by nature to create new technological innovations is a signature of one Virginia Tech research team. The group led by Associate Professor Michael Bartlett has created an ...

An octopus patrols a shallow reef, searching for food–and it’s not alone. A flurry of fish move alongside it, in a group hunting phenomenon observed in multiple marine locations around the world.

That’s no coral. That’s a day octopus, Octopus cyanea. Astonishing to have missed it: It’s as big as a dinner plate. This algae octopus, Abdopus aculeatus, has just inked. Octopuses release ...

As with searching for disposable drinkware, the key to finding the best disposable plates for any occasion is to look at sturdy, leakproof designs. We like the Dixie Ultra Paper Plates for an all ...

I f you tried to keep track of every new restaurant and bar in New York, your head might spin. So just read this list instead ...

Bar Clementine may be new — it opened in February of this year — but the cozy-chic spot already feels like an Islip landmark.

For the first time, dining critic Rachel Bernhard sets a list of Milwaukee's best restaurants, with 25 top-tier standouts ...

San Francisco State researchers created three-dimensional molecular and anatomical maps of the inner neuronal circuitry of octopus arms. Their recent findings were published in two scientific papers i ...