Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. With three hearts, blue blood, and eight arms that seem to have a ...

Scientists set out to understand all the ways the animals use their eight appendages. It wasn’t easy. By Kate Golembiewski The eight arms of an octopus are right there in its name. But these ...

Octopus arms are one of the most flexible structures known in all of the biological world. Their agility is so extraordinary that robotics researchers want to learn the secrets behind their movements, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. There are many remarkable things about octopuses—they’re ...

Scientists discovered that octopuses use their limbs to sample the microbiomes on the surfaces they touch. By Sofia Quaglia Sofia Quaglia earlier reported on fish that use their legs (yes, legs) to ...

The octopus is a striking creature. Their most defining feature, of course, is their eight arms. A new study of octopuses has now documented exactly how those eight arms are used in the wild.

WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Octopus arms are one of the most flexible structures known in all of the biological world. Their agility is so extraordinary that robotics researchers want to learn the secrets ...

Researchers studied octopuses in the wild to learn whether they favor one of their eight arms over the others for certain jobs, but found the creatures give new meaning to ambidextrous. The octopus is ...