Scientists are using mechanisms inspired by nature to create new technological innovations. A team has now created an octopus-inspired adhesive, inspired by the shape of octopus suckers, that can ...

An adhesive inspired by octopus suckers is capable of quickly gripping and releasing challenging underwater objects.

In 2019, the photographer Harris Narainen had just wrapped up a night dive off Anilao in the Philippines and begun his ...

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We 'll go in this direction.' So the octopus plays this role." Sampaio, of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour, is the lead author of a study examining the social dynamics of these ...

With the octopus leading the charge, fish scout for hidden prey and signal where to capture a smaller fish or mollusk. But if freeloading fish are hovering around, looking to benefit from the hunt ...

They rove around the sea floor to catch prey together, with the octopus serving as the dominant center of the group. The scientists noted that the fish never act aggressively toward the octopus, ...

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A new study shows that some members of the species Octopus cyanea maraud around the seafloor in hunting groups with fish, which sometimes include several fish species at once. The research ...

“Not just one octopus and one fish,” Sampaio says. “We’re talking about one octopus and five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten very different fish.” Sponsor Message For years, the hierarchy ...