In this study, the authors use microCT to image an intact hatchling octopus and segment major organ systems, including the vascular, respiratory, digestive, and nervous systems. The resulting dataset ...

For an octopus, exploring the ocean floor with eight highly sensitive arms is a constant game of roulette. These limbs are ...

Octopuses can be fooled into thinking a fake arm is actually their own. When scientists in Japan pinched an artificial appendage during experiments, octopuses recoiled in defense – swimming away, ...

The hectocotylus is both a reproductive and sensory organ, Harvard scientists and others have found. Octopuses are some of ...

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