THIS is the horrific moment an aggressive octopus latches onto a snorkeler and nearly strangles him after its home was ...

Some scientists claim that octopuses could be the next big species after humans go extinct and that there is much to learn ...

It’s also larger than many vertebrates, although not mammals. Octopuses have about as many neurons as a dog – the common octopus, Octopus vulgaris, has around 500 million. About two thirds are in its ...

Emma Knight's recent coming-of-age bestseller "The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus" has been set up as a TV series at Amazon's MGM Television. Based on the book of the same name, the series is ...

And when a fish slacks off, the octopus isn’t shy about delivering it a swift slap. Teamwork Beneath the Waves New research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution studied how the common octopus ...

An octopus. In particular, Amphioctopus marginatus, also known as the coconut octopus. Its common name comes from its habit of hiding in discarded coconut shells (sometimes it even picks them up ...

This is the terrifying moment an aggressive octopus latches onto a snorkeller and nearly strangles him after its home was ...

Aboard HMS Beagle in 1832, near the Cape Verde island of Santiago (then called St Jago), the young naturalist Charles Darwin met his match in the form of a common octopus. Surrounded by the Tank ...

This practice is especially common in animals exhibiting female ... It also occurs with some crustaceans, gastropods, and even octopuses. And while a female blue-lined octopus is usually about ...

Sexual cannibalism is common in cephalopods such as octopuses, as well as in other animals such as spiders and mantises, he said. Chung added that eating their partner helps female octopuses to ...