A surprise discovery at Birch Aquarium in La Jolla is shedding new light and providing first-of-its-kind information about what researchers call a mysterious octopus species that typically is in ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

When people think of intelligent animals, they immediately think of dolphins, elephants, and chimpanzees. But one of the most ...

Conservationist Christina Hicks explains the tension between protecting marine life and depending on it for food, and how our ...

Octopuses are widely known for their intelligence, including problem-solving, tool use, and complex hunting behavior. For ...

Stanford researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering potential applications in camouflage, art, robotics, and even nanoscale ...

EPFL's robotic appendage features fingers that bend both ways and is designed to retrieve objects from spaces too hazardous ...

For a small number of animals, reproduction marks a biological endpoint rather than a stage in an ongoing life cycle. Death follows mating with such consistency that it can be predicted within a ...

While they don't write love letters, there’s no doubt animals form deep and enduring friendships and use many different ways ...

Nature often outperforms imagination. While fantasy films rely on CGI and special effects, the real world quietly hosts ...

Blue blood may look alien, but it’s one of evolution’s most elegant solutions to life in extreme environments. Here’s how ...

European car giants issued warning over electric vehicles: ‘We saw what happened to Blockbuster’ - Octopus boss Greg Jackson ...