A research team in South Korea has developed a soft robot named Octoid that can mimic the movement and behavior of an octopus in its natural habitat. The robot's "triple-in-one" system enables it to ...

Mattias Krantz is a YouTuber with a penchant for bonkers engineering and musical projects. A few months ago, he went into a ...

Young sea urchins spread neuron-rich tissue across their bodies. A new atlas shows complex neural and light sensing networks.

Pterosaurs acquired flight "in a burst at their origin," giving scientists new insights into the biological laws of flight ...

Underwater octopuses change their body color and texture in the blink of an eye to blend perfectly into their surroundings ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have identified a brain-like cluster of neurons in sea urchin larvae, traditionally ...

For decades, biologists treated a familiar marine invertebrate as a kind of living afterthought, a translucent tube that ...

EST-Floattech will supply its Octopus Lite battery systems for six new general cargo vessels to be built by Ferus Smit shipyard in the Netherlands for Arklow Shipping. The project involves ...

A new series of six General Cargo vessels being built by Ferus Smit in the Netherlands for Irish ship operator Arklow Shipping will sport EST-Floattech's Octopus Lite battery system. EST-Floattech ...

Octopus. Image by Openverse. Unlike vertebrates with centralized brains, octopuses possess a distributed nervous system that’s truly extraordinary. Their central brain contains approximately 500 ...

Octopuses have a unique nervous system, said Father Tom Margevicius, co-host of the “Practicing Catholic” radio show. “The central nervous system of the octopus is not all concentrated in the main ...

In late September 2025, an image claiming to show an octopus helping a diver with underwater maintenance tasks began circulating on Facebook. One version (archived), included the following caption: ...