The veined octopus doesn’t just use tools—it also arranges and rearranges its living space. Like a meticulous interior designer, it positions shells and debris to create hiding spots ...

The coconut-carrying -- and subsequent hiding -- makes the veined octopus the newest member of the animal tool-using club, scientists say, an extremely elite group in the animal kingdom.

The veined octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus) apparently can stack discarded coconut shell halves just as one might pile bowls, sits atop them, makes its eight arms rigid like stilts, and then ...

The veined octopus uses coconut shells for defence, carrying them along in a comical stilt-walking style and using them to encase itself in times of trouble.

An octopus that uses coconut shells as portable armor is the latest addition to a growing list of animals that use tools. The veined octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus) apparently can stack ...

And the most efficient way the veined octopus has found to carry those two coconut halves around? It’s called ‘stilt-walking’, and it involves the octopus basically ‘sitting’ on the shells, holding ...

The coconut octopus in this video from furbabiesplus looks like a walking squirt gun. A curious Husky trying to take a closer look at this remarkable creature gets a snout full of water for his ...

The veined octopus under study manages a behavioral trick that the researchers call stilt walking. In it, the soft-bodied octopus spreads itself over stacked, upright coconut shell "bowls," makes ...

The veined octopuses (Amphioctopus marginatus) were filmed between 1999 and 2008 off the coasts of Northern Sulawesi and Bali in Indonesia. The bizarre behaviour was spotted on four occasions.

The veined octopus, for example, dons a suit of armour made of coconut shells. The veined octopus (Amphioctus marginatus) lives in sandy, exposed habitats that have little in the way of cover.