Three divers looking at a Giant Pacific Octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) in the Sea of Japan. Octopuses are iconic for their eight arms. But how many hearts does an octopus have? It turns out that an ...

Octopuses tend to catch your attention the moment you learn anything real about them. They don’t fit the neat biological patterns most animals follow, and that’s precisely what makes them so ...

We know that octopuses have awesome visual systems and super-sensitive suckers. We have even learned that they can hear. But little scientific attention has been paid to their sense of smell. "They ...