Blue-ringed octopuses carry a killer concoction called tetrodotoxin (TTX), a potent neurotoxin that can paralyze living ...

Octopuses have many amazing abilities and characteristics; they have huge brains and can solve puzzles; their ink can ...

Octopus arms possess a remarkable capacity for intricate and diverse motions achieved through sequential deformation of the body. This paper aims to reproduce octopus-like reaching movements ...

These intelligent sea creatures have multiple brains — nine, to be exact. In addition to a central brain located between its eyes, an octopus has eight separate clusters of nerve cells, called ganglia ...

Several articles have dealt with the importance and mechanisms of the sympathetic nervous system alterations in experimental animal models of hypertension. This review addresses the role of the ...

The octopus nervous system is unlike anything in the animal kingdom. Roughly two-thirds of its 500 million neurons are located in its arms, not its central brain.

Researchers reported Tuesday in the journal Cell that octopus arms are fine-tuned to “eavesdrop into the microbial world,” detecting microbiomes on the surfaces around them and deriving ...

What makes octopus arm regeneration particularly impressive is that these appendages aren’t simple structures—they contain complex nervous systems with approximately two-thirds of the octopus’s ...

We consider robotic analogues of the arms of the octopus, a cephalopod exhibiting a wide variety of dexterous movements and complex shapes, moving in an aquatic environment. Although an invertebrate, ...