The last sighting of the glass octopus was in 2021, and scientists still don't know much about this highly elusive species.

the creature doesn’t get tangled up Israeli scientists found this is because its suckers can't stick to themselves They temporarily shut down if they sense chemicals on an octopus' skin ...

Their skin is embedded with cells that sense light. Most otherworldly of all—but let’s wait on that. First, let’s meet another octopus. Stocky, with a large body and shortish arms ...

The secret to developing these products lies in the way that cephalopod skin harnesses light. An octopus' skin contains pigments and reflectors that soak up light and manipulate it into a variety ...

Unlike the octopus's arms, which that animal often uses ... the cuttlefish can alter the color of its skin while waving its arms in a mesmerizing display. This lures potential prey to within ...

Magnetic composite with stiffness control allows programmable 3D shape shifting for use in soft robots, tactile interfaces, ...

(2013), Cuttlefish skin papilla morphology suggests a muscular ... (1991) "Ecology, paleobiology and evolutionary constraint in the octopus." Bulletin of Marine Science 49: 245-255.

The grasping is a reflex action: amputated octopus arms continue acting like a live arm, grasping and holding objects that they touch, for an hour or more after being severed from the body. But they ...

Like the other members of the octopus family, though, they use special pigment cells in their skin to change colors and textures, and can blend in with even the most intricately patterned corals ...