Researchers created a self-applying suction patch to improve drug absorption in part by drawing inspiration from the distinctive structural characteristics of octopus suckers. The noninvasive platform ...

Among the smartest animals on Earth, octopuses are unique for being utterly weird in their evolutionary path to developing those smarts. Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith has called the octopus the ...

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 ...

The nutritional biology of common octopus paralarvae is a rapidly advancing field that integrates physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology. Paralarvae, representing the early, planktonic stage ...