In a recent news report from ABC, it was revealed that scientists from the Ocean Exploration Trust captured on film one of ...

More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world’s oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn’t one at ...

Scientific knowledge is constantly updated, revised, or reshuffled as new insights emerge. One particular fossil was thought ...

Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world's oldest octopus is actually a nautilus relative.

In 2016, an octopus named Inky pulled off one of the cleanest escapes ever recorded at the National Aquarium of New Zealand ...

The hectocotylus is both a reproductive organ and a sensory organ, a rare combination in animals, new research suggests ...

Scientists uncover the truth behind a well-known fossil, Pohlsepia mazonensis, showing the "world's oldest octopus" was not ...

The hectocotylus is both a reproductive and sensory organ, Harvard scientists and others have found. Octopuses are some of ...

Scientists found that the male’s hectocotylus, the specialized arm for mating, is lined with receptors that can sense ...