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Octopuses can taste with their arms — here's how their tentacles distinguish food from toxic prey
Special receptors on their tentacles help octopuses taste objects just by touching them, a new stud…
Aylin Woodward
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TikTok shows woman 'unknowingly' holding one of the world's most venomous octopus species
A woman went viral on TikTok for sharing a video of herself 'unknowingly' holding one of the most v…
Moises Mendez II
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Photos show 6,000 octopuses in one spot. It's the largest known gathering ever found and a mystery that scientists only just solved.
Five years ago, scientists stumbled upon the largest gathering of octopuses known to humans. Now, t…
Maiya Focht
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Rare footage shows a 'Dumbo' octopus more than 5,500 feet underwater, swimming with its ear-shaped fins
The peculiar octopus uses its ear-shaped fins to move around. It was spotted by a deep-sea submersi…
Marianne Guenot
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Scientists see surprising brain activity in sleeping octopuses that could mean they dream like us
New study shows that octopuses have sleep patterns similar to humans. These patterns could be a clu…
Maiya Focht
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A Spanish firm wants to kill one million octopuses a year using 'ice slurry' baths at first-ever factory farm
Plans obtained by animal rights advocates suggest the company, Nueva Pescanova, plans to kill octop…
Charles R. Davis
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New Study Reveals Why Octopuses Don't Tie Themselves In Knots
The researchers are part of a team working on building a robotic octopus arm for use in medicine an…
Stephanie Pappas
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Little octopuses are slithering out of the water onto beaches in Wales
"Many octopus species emerge to hunt in the pools of water left behind by the receding tide" octopu…
Hilary Brueck
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A man was attacked by the 'angriest octopus' in Australia and he recorded it on camera
Lance Karlson believes he'd stumbled upon the creature's home when he was whipped by its tentacles …
Rachel Hosie
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Scientists captured a stunning photo of two glass octopuses intertwined. They might be having deep-sea sex.
The picture shows the elusive, almost see-though animals, closely enlaced. This could be mating or …
Marianne Guenot
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'The Boys' actor said he 'almost had a panic attack' before filming an infamous octopus sex scene. He's the latest to speak out about how challenging intimate shoots can be.
"The Boys" actor Chace Crawford told Rolling Stone that showrunner Erik Kripke changed the octopus …
Ayomikun Adekaiyero
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Octopuses could get the same protections as mice and monkeys thanks to a growing body of evidence that suggests they feel pain
The NIH proposed new guidelines for cephalopods used in science. Other countries, like the UK, have…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Two octopuses were caught battling thousands of feet under the Gulf of Mexico - and it looks like something out of a sci-fi movie
Last week, one of NOAA's submersibles came across a large octopus on the seafloor just over 5,900 f…
Jeremy Berke
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Octopus Ventures is launching a new $140 million fund
Octopus took part in Shopa's $11 million (£7.2 million) Series A round in February before the shopp…
Lucy England
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How the 'classiest' A-list celebrity ended up voicing a sexy octopus on 'The Boys' season 4
"The Boys" showrunner Eric Kripke and actor Chace Crawford spoke to Business Insider about the famo…
Olivia Singh
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Try To Find The Camouflaged Octopus In This Video
Well, the scene is this: diving along a shallow coral reef in the Caribbean and there's a rock sitt…
Dina Spector
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Humans are just starting to understand the octopus - and it's mind-blowing
In her book, "Octopus!" Katherine Harmon Courage travels the globe to swim, observe, and even taste…
Jessica Orwig
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Octopuses are officially the weirdest animals on Earth
But what makes RNA editing different from DNA editing is the long-term effects. Your DNA, for insta…