Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. These five research-backed insights show why the octopus ...

Researchers studying a deep-sea octopus called Muusoctopus robustus have found thousands of the animals congregating at hydrothermal springs near an underwater mountain off California, raising fresh ...

In the new Prime documentary series “Octopus!” actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge spends an hour and a half narrating a story about an octopus named Doris that sets out on her own, falls in love and ...

Meetings across the tree of life : Two meetings and a departure ; Outlines -- A history of animals : Beginnings ; Living together ; Neurons and nervous systems ; The garden ; Senses ; The fork -- ...

For an octopus, almost any arm will do. New research published Thursday shows that octopuses have the ability to use any of their eight limbs to perform tasks like reaching, tiptoeing or grasping.