On May 8, 2025, the nature documentary Octopus! was released on Prime. The underwater documentary, produced and narrated by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, tells the fascinating story of an octopus’s incredible ...

Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do the same.

The octopus is a striking creature. Their most defining feature, of course, is their eight arms. A new study of octopuses has now documented exactly how those eight arms are used in the wild.

This is the den of the common octopus. Can you see it hiding? Credit: Shutterstock Look at the picture above. What do you see? If you look closely, you may notice the red eyes of the common octopus ...