If you want to know more about these camouflaged critters, start with our top ten list of Camouflage Animals. From the advanced mimic octopus to the leafy seadragon, each creature on this list has its ...

Mimic Octopus. Image by Silke Baron from Vienna, Austria, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. When we think about ...

The Philadelphia Eagles’ return to the Super Bowl in 2025 has bettors everywhere talking about an octopus. No, this is not a real octopus. It’s a not a nickname for a player (or at least not a ...

The octopus is a marvel of the sea. With their eight flexible, sucker-lined tentacles, their vast intelligence, and the ability to squeeze themselves into tight spaces, these cephalopods have long ...

HeTRM enables energy storage in a flexible joint, releasing it instantly to allow wrapping around objects, similar to an octopus ... efforts have been made to mimic this behavior, we introduced ...

Cephalopods may have the oldest sex chromosomes of any animal, according to a new discovery in the octopus genome. That's a big deal given that scientists didn't know until now if these oddball ...

The California two-spot octopus possesses one of the oldest known sex chromosomes, dating back approximately 480 million years, predating the evolutionary split from the nautilus.

“Our research provides a circuit framework for how the octopus ANC controls the arm and suckers which could be used in soft robot design trying to mimic the octopus arm.” In ...

University of Oregon researchers discovered a 480-million-year-old sex chromosome in the California two-spot octopus, making it one of the oldest known animal sex chromosomes. This finding confirms ...