Scientists have discovered that when mating, male blue-lined octopuses will inject a powerful, incapacitating neurotoxin into ...

Male blue-lined octopuses inject a powerful neurotoxin into the hearts of females before mating to avoid being eaten, ...

Additionally, the brain waves did not seem to adhere to the octopus’ behavior in any way, either. Its movements, tasks, and other activities did not seem to provide any direct correlation with ...

For the filming of the series, the team spent two years and nearly 1,500 hours underwater, documenting octopus behavior in 10 different locations across five countries, including Canada ...

Somehow, a large orange octopus has been riding a mako shark off the coast of New Zealand. Researchers are mystified.

Researchers in New Zealand captured the odd pairing on video, but they still don’t know how to explain the behavior ...

T he intelligence of an octopus is a fascinating thing, not least because it is an extremely intelligent animal whose ...

Kilian was the guest speaker at a Maui Nui Marine Resource Council Zoom webinar titled “Exploring the Octopus: How to Learn from Animal Behavior” last month, where he highlighted the octopus ...

While the bite from a venomous blue-lined octopus (Hapalochlaena fasciata) can result in a painful, potentially life-or-death emergency for humans, new research indicates it’s part of everyday ...

Chung, who has worked with many different species of octopus for previous studies, filmed blue-lined octopuses to observe how they copulate. “They have very strange mating behavior,” said ...