Octopuses are extraordinary creatures, and their blue blood is just one of the many unusual aspects of their biology. That means there's a huge part of the ocean, over 95% that are yet to be explored.

The findings are the first to quantify how much work goes into switching on chromatophores, the specialized color-changing organs connected to cephalopods’ muscle and nervous systems, which dot the ...

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In a delightful encounter along a beach in Wales, marine enthusiasts were treated to a rare sighting of a curled octopus. The captivating footage, captured by Ciara Taylor, a project assistant for the ...

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Octopuses are extraordinary creatures, and their blue blood is just one of the many unusual aspects of their biology. Did you know that an octopus has blue blood [Jsim] The ocean covers more than 70% ...

Related video above: Octopuses use their tentacles to tasteWith its eight legs wrapped around itself as if in a hug and its eye pupils narrowed to a slit, the octopus breathes evenly, its body a ...

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