“A lot of people say an octopus is like an alien,” says filmmaker Craig Foster in his new Netflix documentary “My Octopus Teacher.” “But the strange thing is, as you get closer to them you realize ...

New research identifies a previously unknown type of nerve cell inside octopus suckers that the cephalopods use like taste buds. Lena van Giesen New research reveals a previously unknown type of nerve ...

"A lot of people say an octopus is like an alien," says filmmaker Craig Foster in his new Netflix documentary "My Octopus Teacher." "A lot of people say an octopus is like an alien," says filmmaker ...

Researchers have shown that the suckers of octopuses are covered with specialized receptors that allow them to taste by touching things. Similar receptors are also found in squid, but there are ...

Past research has revealed that ' the eight legs of an octopus have a group of nerves that control the legs independently of the brain ' and that they have the ability to confirm the 'taste' of what ...

Imagine if you could taste something simply by touching it. Octopuses can do just that with their unique "touch-taste" sense, made possible by the suction-cup-like suckers along each of their eight ...

Researchers with the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer included this image of an octopus in its collection of images from a 2013 expedition in the canyons that make up the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts ...

Whether it’s spiced in the Spanish style or sliced as Japanese sashimi, octopus as a dish is becoming a victim of its own popularity. Prices for the tentacled mollusc have about doubled in the past ...

Octopuses can taste their prey before eating it by using their arms to “lick” it, which researchers say adds to evidence that the cephalopods' eight appendages are analogous to tongues with “hands” ...

Octopuses can taste what their arms touch, and scientists have figured out how. By Katherine J. Wu Should anything ever compel you to lick an octopus’s arm, keep this in mind: That arm has all the ...