This octopus will crawl at you in ANY DIRECTION [image courtesy of shutterstock] Let’s face it, octopuses are just going to be our cephalopod overlords. They have 8 arms, 3 hearts, Moms eat their own ...

The octopus is one of Earth's most striking creatures, able to exert fine control over a complex and flexible body all while constantly adjusting its coloration through specialized organs on its skin.

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 ...

In another episode of “Cephalopods are Basically the Most Amazing Creatures on Earth,” today we get an inside look at the burrowing habits of the southern sand octopus, the pressurized hose of the ...

Their legs can shimmy in any direction, without any clear pattern and regardless of which way their head is pointed. Other animals don’t move this way, suggesting that the octopus has a motion command ...