The giant Pacific octopus and other cephalopods are able to change their color and texture due to specific capabilities in their skin, according to the Smithsonian.

YAQUINA HEAD, Ore. - Recent video from the U.S. Department of the Interior shows a giant Pacific octopus crawling through the Yaquina Head tide pools in northwestern Oregon. According to the ...

Giant Pacific octopuses have huge, bulbous heads and are generally reddish-brown in color. Like the other members of the octopus family, though, they use special pigment cells in their skin to ...

Chalupa, a Giant Pacific Octopus, was humanely euthanized at the Milwaukee County Zoo in January 2024. ... 🎨 National Creativity Day is May 30, so celebrate your most colorful impulses.

Naoto Shinkai / Shutterstock. The giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) is the largest species in the world, weighing as much as 150 pounds and measuring up to 15 feet long.It's also known ...

Milwaukee County Zoo visitors who miss Chalupa — the giant Pacific octopus who was humanely euthanized at the beginning of 2024 — will be thrilled to meet the zoo's new arrival. Flurry, a 10 ...

We were given a behind-the-scenes look at the daily tasks assigned to the aquarists of the Bailey-Matthews National Shell ...

Spy a two-spot octopus in this reimagined Aquarium of the Pacific gallery The tentacle-rocking resident will have some notable neighbors, including white abalone and the moray eel.

YAQUINA HEAD, Ore. - Recent video from the U.S. Department of the Interior shows a giant Pacific octopus crawling through the Yaquina Head tide pools in northwestern Oregon. According to the ...

Chalupa, the Milwaukee County Zoo's female giant Pacific octopus, was humanely euthanized on Jan. 25.. According to a statement from the zoo, staff had noticed last August that Chalupa had laid ...

There, the octopus can be seen changing its color and texture from red and smooth to brown and mottled in an attempt to camouflage itself. The barely visible giant Pacific octopus begins to ...