Octopus fossils are rare ... The word is Greek for “head-foot” and refers to their weird anatomy, by which their arms are attached directly to one side of their head while their “torso ...

Compared with the arms of an octopus, our own bony limbs are about as flexible as old tree branches. It stands to reason that ...

Compared to the complexity of an octopus's arms, our own bones seem as rigid as tree branches. The flexible, boneless limbs of cephalopods stand out with their construction and capabilities, which ...

Unlike the octopus's arms, which that animal often uses to move and carry objects, the cuttlefish's eight arms are specialized for grasping prey after the cuttlefish captures it with its two ...

A research team has recently published a study titled "Topology, dynamics, and control of a muscle-architected soft arm," in ...

postdoctoral fellow Gabrielle Winters-Bostwick and graduate student Diana Neacsu took multiple sections along the octopus arm to create 3D reconstructions of cell distribution and gross anatomy ...