This wildlife feature examines the mimic octopus, a species known for imitating other marine animals to avoid danger. Rather than relying on camouflage alone, it alters its shape, movement, and ...

This looks as if this could be a photo of the interior of your great-aunt’s knitting basket – but it’s actually a cross section through the arm of an octopus. The intricate neural and muscular ...

Humans have a single, central command center that helps them make sense of the world. In contrast, nature has come up with many more complicated ways to stay alive. A distributed nervous system, where ...

Cephalopods – including octopuses, cuttlefish and squid – possess one of the most sophisticated neural systems among invertebrates, which supports a wide array of complex behaviours. Their neural ...