What animal has blue blood, three hearts and can change color and shape within three-tenths of a second? The same animal has venom like a snake, a beak like a parrot and ink like a pen. It is an ...

The algae octopus (Abdopus aculeatus), also called the prickly octopus, lives in the Indo-West Pacific. Despite its modest size — its mantle (main body) is only 3 inches long with arms stretching up ...

The octopus certainly does look strange, with bugged-out eyes, suction-cup tentacles, and the ability to change color for camouflage. But a new paper in a peer-reviewed scientific journal posits that ...

We don’t know if androids dream of electric sheep, but whatever octopuses dream of must be something adventurous because they change color a lot while they’re sleeping. And while the octopus in the ...

The creatures have a hugely complicated genome sequence, and have more protein-coding genes than even humans Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by signing up to our newsletter We ...

JUST off Seattle’s coastline lives something more alien, fascinating and emotionally appealing than any science-fiction space character. It has unearthly superpowers: It can taste with its skin; it ...