Octopuses have many amazing abilities and characteristics; they have huge brains and can solve puzzles; their ink can ...

An octopus has three hearts and long arms with suction cups. It probably seems very different from you. But you have the main ingredients of octopus ink in your body, too! I talked about octopus ...

Note: You may substitute 1 pound squid or shelled, deveined shrimp for the octopus. Shrimp will cook in just 3 minutes. Find squid ink pasta in gourmet stores and some Italian markets. 1 pound ...

Nicholas Bellono, a professor of molecular and cell biology at Harvard University, was worried about his first octopus. “It’s not trivial to have an octopus in the lab,” he says. They're ...

Ink. When discovered, an octopus will release a cloud of black ink to obscure its attacker's view, giving it time to swim away. The ink even contains a substance that dulls a predator's sense of ...

A new octopus-sucker-inspired suction cup could make it much easier and more energy-efficient for robots to lift and release rough-surfaced objects. The secret lies in using water to mimic octopus ...

A compound found inside octopus ink has been created artificially in the lab and used to kill cancer cells. The development could eventually lead to new cancer treatments. Martín Samuel ...