Scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have described a new way to produce large amounts of xanthommatin, a natural pigment, in a bacterium for the first time. Xanthommatin ...

A real catch & cook adventure — watch as I dive for octopus, prepare it from scratch, and cook an incredible island meal.

US scientists have bioengineered the octopus pigment xanthommatin in bacteria, producing 1,000 times more material than traditional methods.

For Ghost, a 45-pound octopus believed to be between 2 and 4 years old (the average lifespan for her species), it means ...

If you can, take a moment and watch this peaceful, good-feeling video of a scuba diver and an octopus. Octopi? Octopuses?

Join us on this unexpected adventure as we explore the intriguing world of marine companionship, where a curious octopus ...

Some animals in nature can do something really amazing– they can change their colours. It’s not just to look pretty, but also ...

How does an octopus change its colours, while colour blind? And why do birds have such radiant plumages? Our understanding of the way animals see and feel the world has taken great leaps forward in ...

In a recently published, PNAS study, professor Andreas Neider and his team found that crows and rhesus macaques take mental ...

If we set aside elephants and blue whales for a moment and shift our focus to the other end of the size spectrum, the world ...

In her latest check-in with the Boston Public Art Triennial, WBUR's Amelia Mason visited Charlestown and Mattapan and saw two ...

As Halloween decorations fill neighborhoods across North America, scientists have unwrapped a real-life natural mystery: six brand-new species of bats have just been discovered in the lush forests of ...