Optical illusions aren't just for humans; animals also experience and utilize them for survival and reproduction. From ...

Amelia Thomas' new book is a "call to listen" to what other animals are trying to tell us in a world increasingly clogged ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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?

Anyone proposing to offer a master class on changing the world for the better, without becoming negative, cynical, angry, or narrow-minded in the process, could model their advice on the life and work ...

A beloved octopus is entering the last stage of her life in Long Beach,and will spend the remainder of her days caring for eggs that will never hatch. News of the approaching demise of Ghost — a giant ...

This past July and August scientists onboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor (too) spotted the oddities through the eyes of an underwater robot as they explored the Mar del Plata ...

The ocean is home to many different predators and prey, all with the same end goal: survival. Sometimes, a predator-prey rivalry occurs in which each animal hunts the other. One of these rivalries is ...