A soft robotic arm, based on an octopus arm, might be able to get food, water or a cell phone down to someone trapped under ...

Octopuses and their arms are a bit of a mystery.  Not because scientists don’t know how they work; they’re boneless ...

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 ...

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 ...

Try having no arms and eating a live octopus that's crawling around on your head with its tentacles. Failure could mean it's your last supper. But a population of bottlenose dolphins off the coast of ...