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Octopuses are the closest things to real-life aliens we’ve ever encountered. The more we learn about them, the stranger they reveal themselves to be. For instance, a new study published in the journal ...

In the dark depths of the sea, where vision is difficult, meeting a mate becomes a problem. Octopuses, which are highly intelligent beings that generally avoid social contact, do not meet often.

The California two-spot octopus is a solitary creature. How exactly they manage to find suitable mates has been one of the ocean’s best-kept secrets. Now scientists have discovered that male octopuses ...

When octopuses mate, the male keeps the female quite literally at arm’s length. For the act, the male has a special arm called a hectocotylus, which it uses to deposit a sack of sperm inside the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have now learned a lot more about the sex life of the California two-spot octopus. Octopus sex hinges on a peculiar ...

A team of neurologists, environmentalists and bioengineers at the University of Queensland, in Australia, has found that male blue-lined octopuses paralyze females prior to mating to avoid being eaten ...

Octopus mating behaviors can be quite deadly. Many species are cannibalistic, making the entire prospect of mating dangerous, and female octopuses often die after laying one clutch of eggs. Their ...

Octopuses are freaky and mysterious, and they're notoriously difficult to study. But research on one particularly freaky species shows us just how much we have left to learn about cephalopods: The ...